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"CHERRY  AND   BLACK 


"CHERRY  AND  BLACK 


•.  THE  CAREER  OF 
MR.  PIERRE  LORILLARD 
ON  THE  TURF 


BY 
W.  S.  YOSBURGH 


PRINTED  FOR  PIERRE  LORILLARD 
1916 


Copyright,  191 6,  by 
Pierre  Lorillard 


CONTENTS 

CHAPTER  PAGE 

I  The  Revival  of  Racing  at  Jerome  Park  3 

11  Racing,  i 873-1 877 10 

III  The  Race  for  the  Championship  ...  20 

IV  Racing,  1878 26 

V  The  Campaign  in  England,  i 879-1 882  .  29 

VI  Winning  the  Derby  and  St.  Leger    .     .  40 

VII  The  Rancocas  Stud 55 

VIII   Racing,  1 879-1 882 66 

IX  A  Visit  to  Rancocas 78 

X  "The  Mothers  OF  the  Cherry  Jacket"  .  88 

XI  Racing,  1883 97 

XII   Racing,  1884 no 

XIII  Racing,  1885 120 


CONTENTS 

CHAPTER  PAGE 

XIV  The  Sales,  1886 134 

XV  The  Return  TO  Racing,  1889-1895   .      .    139 

XVI  The     Second     Campaign     in     England, 

1896-1901 147 

XVII  The  Return  to  America,  i  899-1900       .    152 

xviii  Conclusion 155 


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PREFACE 

Most  of  the  racing  stones  I  have  read  had  more  to  do 
with  showing  how  some  otherwise  uninteresting  person, 
who  hved  upon  the  precarious  product  of  his  cunning, 
had  performed  a  great  coup  in  the  betting,  and  often 
by  methods  somewhat  irregular,  to  say  the  least.  The 
merits  of  the  great  race-horses  seem  of  secondary  im- 
portance. The  leading  turfmen  and  legislators  are 
ignored  to  show  the  acuteness  of  some  individual  whose 
only  title  to  distinction  is  his  recklessness  with  money  he 
never  earned. 

Whoever  expects  to  find  this  a  volume  of  that  de- 
scription will  be  disappointed.  Betting  will  be  treated 
as  an  incident  of  racing— not  as  its  object.  The  great 
races  and  the  great  race-horses,  the  leading  owners, 
trainers,  and  jockeys  of  the  past  forty  years  afford 
ample  material  of  general  interest  with  which  to  fill  a 
volume  without  going  into  the  details  of  their  betting, 
which  is  a  personal  matter  and  concerns  them  alone. 

The  object  of  this  volume  is  to  record  the  career  of 


PREFACE 

the  late  Mr.  Pierre  Lorlllard  as  a  turfman.  His  career 
was  one  of  the  most  Important  In  the  history  of  Ameri- 
can racing  and  one  for  which  all  devotees  of  racing 
have  reason  to  be  thankful,  as  It  was  the  success  of 
his  stable  In  England  with  Parole  ,and  Iroquois  that 
aroused  the  first  real  Interest  of  Americans  In  racing, 
an  Interest  that  penetrated  the  country  from  coast  to 
coast. 

In  dealing  with  Mr.  LorlUard's  career,  I  have  been 
compelled  to  maintain  a  chronological  order  which  Is 
unfortunate  In  that  It  prevented  my  having  a  more  con- 
fidential chat  with  my  readers.  I  should  have  preferred 
taking  the  subjects  offhand  In  a  gossipy  style,  as  an 
enumeration  of  races  won  and  lost  Is  apt  to  prove 
tedious.  The  conversations  recorded  are  from  memo- 
randa made  at  the  time,  of  which  I  have  more  than 
enough  to  fill  many  volumes. 

W.  S.  VOSBURGH. 
January  20,  191 5. 


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CHAPTER  I 

THE  REVIVAL  OF  RACING  AT 
JEROME  PARK 

Think  when  we  talk  of  horses,  that  you  see  them 
Printing  their  proud  hoofs  i'  the  receiving  earth. 
Henry  Vj  Prologue. 

WITH  the  revival  of  racing  In  the  East,  following 
the  close  of  the  Civil  War,  Jerome  Park  be- 
came at  once  the  headquarters  of  sport  and  the  Mecca 
of  fashion.     A  race  day  furnished  a  brilliant  spectacle 
as  the  gay  four-in-hands  swung  through  Central  Park, 
thence  to  Jerome  Avenue,   and  along  the 

A  Brilliant      iji^c-bordered  lane  to  the  "Members'  Gate" 
Kjathering 

in  stately  procession   and  magnificence   of 

equipage  which,  according  to  the  newspapers  of  the 
time,  "illustrated  the  triumph  of  civilization." 

At  the  foot  of  the  Club-house  "Bluff"  the  drags  were 
"parked,"  the  horses  unhitched,  and  refreshments 
served  on  the  drags  from  which  New  York's  fairest 
daughters  viewed  the  racing.  There  was  visiting  from 
drag  to  drag,  as  on  an  evening  at  the  opera  among  the 
boxes.    Then,  before  the  principal  race  of  the  day,  the 

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ladles  and  gentlemen  would  descend  from  the  club- 
house, down  the  hill,  through  the  fir-grove,  and  across 
the  course  to  the  Members'  Stand.     The 

c2j  ion  a       1^^^^   citizens   of  the   metropolis   and  their 
the  Races  .  .  ^ 

families,  governors  of  states,  and  even  ex- 
President  Fillmore,  supported  racing  by  their  presence, 
and  all  was  gentle  and  eminently  well-bred. 

The  grand  stand  was  double-tiered  and  divided  into 
three  sections,  the  centre  one  being  for  members  and 
their  families.  The  great  gates  of  the  park  were  of 
iron  and  a  pleasant  sporting  feature  were  large  medal- 
lions of  horses  galloping,  with  jockeys  up,  in  the  colors 
of  Mr.  Belmont,  Mr.  Jerome,  Mr.  Cameron,  Mr. 
Francis  Morris,  Mr.  Hunter,  Mr.  Sanford,  Mr.  Lewis 
G.  Morris  and  Mr.  Watson. 

There  were  few  more  agreeable  places  than  the  club- 
house at  Jerome  Park.  Apart  from  its  architectural 
beauty  and  charming  surroundings,  there  was  some- 
thing baronial  to  its  interior;  and  while  the  fir-crowned 
eminence  on  which  it  stood  was  hardly  a  "heaven-kiss- 
ing hill,"  it  was  something  of  an  Olympian  abode.  Its 
saloons,  its  cheerful  halls,  its  spacious  ball- 
TT  room  where  melody  so  often  echoed,  and 

which,  as  the  door  of  the  south  wing  opened, 
burst  upon  the  view  with  its  great  quaint  old  Louis  XIV 
fireplace  and  arm-chairs,  casting  a  grey  light  of  an- 
tiquity upon  the  scene  — all  these  contributed  to  the 
senses  of  comfort  and  pleasure. 

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The  array  of  racing  "cracks"  that  looked  down  from 
the  walls  formed  an  artistic  treat  to  the  racing  enthu- 
siast and  might  cause  him  to  paraphrase  Mr.  Pope's 
lines  on  Mr.  Addison's  dialogue  of  "The  Medals"  — 

Or  in  fair  series  laurelled  "cracks"  be  shown — 
A  Glencoe  here,  and  there  a  Lexington. 

For  Lexington  was  there— from  the  brush  of  Troye; 
while  Kentucky,  American  Eclipse,  Fashion,  Lecompte, 
and  others  of  the  corps  d' elite  of  America  found  places. 
From  Sartorlous'  representation  of  Eclipse  to  the  last 
decade  of  Derby  and  St.  Leger  winners,  were  grouped 

the  most  celebrated  horses  that  have  won 
P  f,    "'^       fame  over  an  English  race-course.    Fllho  da 

Puta,  big  and  robust,  seems  thirsting  for  an- 
other shy  at  Sir  Joshua,  and  Emilius  "in  flesh"  shows 
little  of  the  stag-like  neck  old  Ben  Marshall  gives  him 
"in  condition."  Margrave  and  the  hollow-backed 
Glencoe  and  the  dainty  Priam  are  there — magic  names 
to  American  horsemen— while  Flying  Dutchman  In  the 
"tartan,"  and  Voltlgeur,  whose  distended  nostrils  and 
outstretched  "flag"  tell  of  "pace-complaint,"  are  also 
there  to  remind  us  of  "The  Great  Match  at  York." 
Newminster,  dainty  and  deerlike;  Stockwell,  of  the 
robust  model;  West  Australian,  lengthy  and  elegant; 
Blair  Athol's  blaze  face.  Blink  Bonny's  bobtail,  and 
Teddington  of  the  calf-knees,  were  all  there  to  demon- 
strate the  "character"  Harry  Hall  gave  to  his  pictures. 


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But  none  are  more  attractive  than  the  series  entitled 
"The  British  Stud,"  by  Herring,  which  decorate  the 
upper  hall.  Pantaloon,  the  paragon  of  beauty,  is  woo- 
ing Languish  to  the  alliance  which  brought  an  Oaks 
winner  in  Ghuznee;  and  Camel  of  the  massive  quarters 
looks  happy  in  Banter's  love,  the  fruit  of  which  in 

Touchstone  has  stamped  itself  upon  the 
«    ,  brightest  pages  of  the  blood-horse  peerage. 

Muley  Moloch  whispers  soft  nothings  to 
Rebecca,  which  blossomed  in  Alice  Hawthorne  and 
bloomed  anew  in  Thormanby ;  while  in  a  wooded  ravine 
through  which  a  crystal  stream  is  sparkling.  Touch- 
stone's truant  nymph,  Beeswing,  is  meeting  Sir  Hercu- 
les' advances  from  the  opposite  bank,  somewhat  as 
Helen  met  those  of  Paris  in  the  absence  of  Menelaus, 
according  to  Offenbach's  version  of  the  "tale  of  Troy 
divine"  — 

Un  mart  sage  est  en  voyage. 

On  all  days  of  the  year,  a  good  dinner  could  be  had 
at  the  club-house,  and  members  made  it  a  frequent 
lounge.  Balls  and  suppers  were  given.  In  the  winter 
sleighing  parties  of  members  (of  which  there  were 
fourteen  hundred)  made  It  a  rendezvous.  Each  of  the 
life  members  (of  which  there  were  fifty)  had  his  pri- 
vate stable  inscribed  with  his  name,  where,  upon  his  ar- 
rival, his  vehicle  was  housed  and  his  horses  cared  for. 
After  the  autumn  meetings,  the  members  held  pigeon 

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shooting  contests  in  the  large  meadow  to  the  south  of 

the   course;    and   there    it   was   that   Mr. 

0  0,    tgeon-      Tj^j^gg  Gordon  Bennett  inaugurated  polo 

Shooting,  and      .  .  t        i  • 

SkdtinQ  ^^  America.     In  the  wmter  a  chalet  was 

built  near  a  large  pond  half  a  mile  dis- 
tant, where  skating  parties  enjoyed  their  sport. 

Preliminary  to  a  race-meeting,  there  was  a  "Match 
Day"  when  the  members  raced  their  horses  in  match 
races— in  some  cases  for  as  much  as  $5000  a  side. 
Match  races  were  also  run  at  various  times  of  the  year. 
Amateur  riding  among  the  members  was  a  feature,  not 
only  in  match  races,  but  in  sweepstakes;  the 
„. ,.  Members'  Cup,  "horses  to  be  ridden  by  mem- 

bers of  the  club,"  being  a  fixture  of  both 
spring  and  autumn  meetings  and  such  riders  as  Mr. 
Wetmore,  Mr.  Hargous,  Mr.  Hecksher,  Mr.  Law- 
rence, Mr.  Taylor,  and  Mr.  De  Hauteville  rode  in  such 
races.  But  Mr.  Carroll  Livingston  was  the  "crack" 
gentleman-rider,  and  it  was  generally  considered  that 
he  could  ride  with  any  professional  jockey  on  even 
terms. 

Sleeping  accommodations  were  plentiful  at  the  club- 
house, and  it  became  the  custom  for  owners  of  racing 
stables  to  take  a  party  of  friends  to  dinner,  stop  over- 
night, and  be  up  with  the  early  morning  to  witness  the 
gallops.  When  the  dew  was  still  on  the  grass,  many  a 
promising  colt  has  had  "a  leading  question"  asked  him 
before  the  stable's  racing  jacket  was  intrusted  to  him 

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for  the  Juvenile  or  the  Nursery.     Then  a  regiment  of 

sheeted  racers  appeared,  walking  In  In- 

The  Morning         j-         ri       ,i     •      hi  jm    -    m  •      • 

^11  *       dian  hie,  their     banged     tails  swinging 

gracefully    from    side   to    side,    and   the 

morning  work  was  on.    Indeed,  the  "morning  gallops" 

became  almost  as  popular  as  the  races.    There  was  not 

the  display  of  equipage,  the  crash  of  the  band,  or  the 

crowd,  or  the  betting.     Nor  was  there  the  glamor  of 

the  silken  jackets  at  the  post,  looking  like  a  tulip-bed  In 

Its  blaze  of  color,  but  there  was  the  true  spirit  of  racing 

In  the  people  who  gathered  to  watch  the  preparation  of 

the  candidates  for  the  Belmont  and  the  Juvenile. 

There  was  a  "racing  spirit"  at  Jerome  Park— "a 

smell  of  real  sport."     Horses  came  to  the  post  with 

their  tails  squared  ( "banged" ) ,  their  manes  plaited  and 

tied  with  ribbons  of  the  stables'  colors.     They  looked 

like  race-horses,  as  race-horses  should  look— like  a  girl 

dressed  for  a  ball.     Indeed,  all  our  race-horses'  tails 

were  "banged"  up  to  1893.  Since  then,  our  horses  have 

gone  to  the  post  with  long  tails,  looking  like  a 

c  .  ^^"^     lot  of  coach-horses.    There  was  no  such  thing 
Spirit  .  ....  . 

as  stewards  perverting  their  judicial  functions 

and  playing  police-detective  in  order  to  attract  attention 

to  themselves  and  gain  a  reputation  for  official  activity. 

There  was  little  of  that  constant  hunting  for  newspaper 

notoriety,  and  few  "press  agents." 

In  short,  there  was  an  atmosphere  of  real  sport  at 

these  Jerome  Park  gatherings.    They  had  not  reached 


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the  sporting  point  of  referring  to  days  or  weeks  as 
those  of  a  great  race,  or  to  years  as  those  of  a 
great  race-horse — there  was  no  "Belmont  Day," 
or  "Kingfisher's  year"— they  had  not  got  that  far 
yet.  But  they  were  coming  to  it.  Between  the  races, 
gentlemen  met  on  the  quarter  stretch  In  earnest  and 
often  Intense  discussions  on  the  topics  of  the  hour;  and 
so  intense  that,  sometimes,  each  would  hold  the  other 
by  the  sleeve,  and  pound  each  other's  shoulder  in  dis- 
putes over  the  stamina  of  the  Eclipse  colts  or  the  rela- 
tive stud  merits  of  Lexington  and  Leamington. 

It  was  the  influence  of  such  surroundings  as  these  that 
attracted,  then  interested  Mr.  Pierre  Lorlllard  in  rac- 
ing, and  finally  brought  him  within  the  fold  of  Ameri- 
can turfmen,  among  whom  for  the  following  thirty 
years  he  was  one  of  the  most  conspicuous. 


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CHAPTER  II 
RACING,    1 873-1 877 

The  "Silks  and  the  Satins" 

Most  famed  on  the  track — 
To  wear  them  all  jocke3's  aspire — 

The  jacket  of  Withers, 
Of  shimmering  "Black"; 

The  "Red  and  Blue"  banner  of  Dwyer; 
The  "Maroon  with  Red  Sash," 

The  "White  with  Blue  Spots," 
Of  Belmont  and  Keene  share  in  glory; 

Haggin's  "Orange  and  Blue," 
Cassatt's  "Tricolor,"  too, 

Are  famous  in  deed  and  in  story. 

But  whatever  the  hue — 

Orange,  green,  red,  or  blue — 
With  the  lads  of  the  pigskin,  so  merry, 

There  's  no  colors  named, 
No  jacket  more  famed, 

Than  the  Lorillard  jacket  of  "Cherry." 

Racing  Song  of  the  "Eighties." 

1873 

SAXON  was  the  colt  which  had  the  distinction  of 
introducing  Mr.  Lorillard's  colors— and  the  colors, 
by  the  way,  were  "scarlet,  with  blue  cap,"  as  the  since 

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famous  "cherry  and  black"  were  not  adopted  until  a  year 
later.  The  occasion  was  at  Monmouth  Park,  N.  J., 
July  10,  1873,  where  for  the  July  Stakes  for  two-year- 
olds  Saxon  ran  unplaced  to  Mr.  Belmont's  King  Ama- 
deus.  For  the  August  Stakes,  July  21,  Saxon  was  suc- 
cessful, beating  three  others,  including  Vandalite,  a 
since  famous  mare.  Then  at  Jerome  Park  in  October 
Saxon  ran  unplaced  to  Rutherford  for  the  Nursery 
Stakes,  and  closed  the  season  by  finishing  second  to 
Weathercock  for  the  Central  Stakes  at  Baltimore.  Mr. 
Lorillard  had  only  one  other  starter  that  season,  a 
three-year-old  colt  called  Free  Lance,  by  Kentucky, 
which  ran  unplaced  at  Jerome  Park. 


1874 

Saxon  was  a  whole-colored  brown  colt  bred  In  England 
by  Sir  Joseph  Hawley,  whose  colors,  "cherry  jacket  with 
black  cap,"  had  been  carried  to  the  front  in 
four  Derbys— those  of  Teddington,  Beads- 
man, Musjid  and  Blue  Gown.  As  Mr.  Lorillard  had 
purchased  a  lot  of  Sir  Joseph's  stock,  the  Lorillard 
horses  appeared  In  1874  under  the  Hawley  colors, 
"cherry,  black  cap,"  to  which  was  added  a  "gold  tas- 
sel." At  Baltimore,  Saxon  finished  unplaced  for  the 
Preakness  Stakes,  but  for  the  Belmont  Stakes  at  Jerome 
Park  he  fairly  outran  himself,  running  on  the  outside  all 
the  way  and  coming  with  an  electric  rush  at  the  finish. 


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winning  by  a  neck  with  such  colts  behind  him  as  Grin- 
stead,  Aaron  Penlngton,  Elkhorn,   Brigand,   Reform, 

Steel  Eyes,  and  Rutherford.    Many  said  "it 
,  ^"d 7^  was   the    riding   that   won,"    and   certainly 

George  Barbee  that  day  rode  the  greatest 
finish  of  his  career.  Still,  Saxon  must  have  been  a  pretty 
good  colt,  for  he  ran  second  to  Aaron  Penlngton  for 
the  Jersey  Derby,  and  defeated  Rutherford  and  Re- 
form; but  one  more  effort,  for  the  Ocean  Stakes,  closed 
his  career. 

George  Barbee  was  the  principal  jockey  and  Mr. 

Pryor  the  trainer  for  the  stable  that  year.    Barbee  was 

born  In  England  in  1854,  and  In  1865  was  apprenticed 

to  Tom  Jennings,  Sr.,  trainer  for  Count  La 

.L    r  \        Grange.     Barbee  was  exercise  lad  of  the  fa- 
the  Jockey  ° 

mous  French  horse  Gladiateur  when  he  had 
a  complaining  leg,  and  Barbee's  light  weight  rendered 
him  available.  Barbee  came  to  America  In  1872  to 
ride  for  Mr.  Chamberlain,  and  rode  Brennus  for  the 
Belmont  Stakes  that  year.  He  soon  had  a  large  prac- 
tice, and  in  1874  won  19  out  of  58  races.  In  1875  he 
won  12  out  of  38,  and  In  1877  he  won  28  out  of  70 
races.  At  this  time  Barbee  was  a  perfect  man-model 
of  the  smaller  type,  tremendously  muscular,  and  his 
whipping  was  very  severe.  Springbok,  the  Belmont 
winner  of  1873,  was  so  savage  that  jockeys  were  afraid 
to  ride  him;  but  Barbee  hit  him  with  the  whip  and  it 
tamed  him.     The  whipping  he  gave  Sachem  In  that 


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colt's  match  with  Onondaga  In  1881  was  such  that 
Sachem  never  forgot  It  and  turned  coward.  William 
Pryor,  the  trainer,  was  a  son  of  Mr.  J.  B.  Pryor,  who 
trained  Lexington,  but  had  lived  several  years  In  Eu- 
rope assisting  his  father  when  the  latter  trained  for 
Mr.  Ten  Broeck  and  later  for  Baron  Shickler  In 
France. 

To  have  won  the  Belmont  Stakes  In  the  second  year 
of  his  career  on  the  turf  was  flattering,  and  Saxon's 
early  decline  did  not  discourage  Mr.  Lorlllard.     Like 
Commodore  Perry  on  Lake  Erie,  who,  when 
his  flag-ship  was  disabled,  hoisted  his  flag  on  an- 
other ship,  Mr.  Lorlllard  was  ready  with  a  new  cham- 
pion of  the  ^'cherry  and  black"  at  Saratoga  when  the 
bugle  called  to  the  post  the  candidates  for  the  historic 
Travers  Stakes.      This  was  Attlla,  a  rather  handsome 
dark  bay  or  brown  colt  by  Australian 

fh7T!lvl^At.  ^'"""^  ^^^^""^  ^^^  Lexington,  which  he 
tild  and  Acrobat  Purchased  of  Mr.  Charles  Lloyd.  Attlla 
had  finished  third  for  the  Nursery  the 
year  before,  and  had  won  both  of  his  three-year-old 
engagements.  It  was  a  great  gathering  of  "cracks" 
for  the  Travers— Acrobat,  Steel  Eyes,  Stampede,  Re- 
form, Brigand,  Rutherford,  Grinstead,  Aaron  Penlng- 
ton,  and  others,  eleven  In  all.  It  resulted  In  a  furious 
finish  between  four— Acrobat,  Attlla,  Brigand  and  Steel 
Eyes.  There  was  great  confusion  over  the  result. 
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rail,  while  Steel  Eyes  and  Brigand  finished  on  the  inside, 
and  a  majority  of  the  people  thought  Steel  Eyes  had 

won.  But  ''the  Ayes  had  it,"  or  rather  Acro- 
,    J.  bat  and  Attila,  for  the  judges  announced  it 

a  dead-heat  between  them.  Sparling  was 
blamed  for  Acrobat's  failure  to  win,  and  Hayward  was 
called  to  ride  Acrobat  for  the  "run  off,"  which  Attila 
won.  It  was  Attila's  last  race,  for,  like  Saxon,  he  fell 
lame;  while  Acrobat,  despite  his  unsound  feet,  became 
the  colt  of  the  year. 

To  have  won  the  Belmont  and  Travers,  the  two  clas- 
sic events  of  the  turf,  was  glory  enough;  and  so  it 
proved,  for  the  balance  of  the  Lorillard  stable  per- 
formed indifferently.  Mr.  Lorillard  gave  $3300  for 
Vaultreas,  which  never  won  a  race,  and  $4000  for  Vas- 
sal, a  very  fine  colt  by  Vandal-Sadowa  which  had  won 
in  the  West;  but  Vassal  was  beaten  by  Rhadamanthus 
in  a  sweepstakes  of  $1000  each  at  Saratoga.  Mr. 
Lorillard  had  purchased  of  Mr.  Welch  for  $1000  the 
colt  James  A.,  by  Leamington-Maiden,  and  with  this 
colt  he  defeated  Mr.  George  Lorillard's  Hyder  Ali  and 
the  famous  Aristides  and  others  at  Jerome  Park. 
Thus  in  his  second  season's  racing,  Mr.  Lorillard  was 
seventh  on  the  list  of  "Winning  Owners"  with  $18,600, 
Col.  McDaniel  leading  with  $43,445. 

1875 
For  the  season  of  1875,  Mr.  Lorillard  had  nearly  forty 

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horses  in  training  under  William  Brown,  who  had  long 
trained  the  horses  of  Mr.  Francis  Morris  of  West- 
chester.    He  took  over  all  Mr.  Morris's 

orty     orses     t^Q.ygar-olds,  and  In  older  horses  he  had 
m  1  raining  ■' 

Stanford  and  Persuader.  The  three-year- 
olds  were  James  A.,  Vassal,  Vernango,  Lotto,  Sangara, 
Vivian,  Springlet,  Tomahawk,  and  Echo.  The  two- 
year-olds  included  Parole,  Shirley,  Atlas,  Evasive, 
Cyril,  Faithless,  Merciless,  Tigress,  Bertram,  Pera, 
Merlin,  Barricade,  Baronet,  Bambino,  Lord  Carlisle, 
Alaric,  Durango,  Demoiselle,  and  Malcolm.  In  the 
all-aged  and  three-year-old  classes,  the  season  was  un- 
productive. Sangara  started  for  the  Belmont,  but  was 
unequal  to  the  task  his  full  brother,  Saxon,  had  accom- 
plished the  year  before.     *'I  cannot  understand,"  said 

Mr.  Lorlllard,  "why  Sangara  should  be  so 
R  lat'  ns"    Poo^  ^  race-horse.     You  know  he  is  a  full 

brother  to  Saxon."  "Oh,  that  's  nothing," 
returned  Mr.  Tucker,  "even  the  Vanderbilts  have  poor 
relations."  Mr.  Lorlllard  purchased  Searcher  on  the 
strength  of  his  brilliant  form  in  the  West.  He  renamed 
him  Leander  and  won  several  races,  but  they  were  of 
minor  importance. 

The  Lorlllard  two-year-olds  more  than  avenged  the 
failure  of  their  elders  in  the  stable.  Faithless,  the  black 
filly  by  Leamington,  purchased  of  Mr.  Morris,  began 
by  winning  the  Juvenile,  Thespian  and  Flash  Stakes. 
And  now  appeared  upon  the  scene  the   redoubtable 

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Parole,  the  future  hero  of  two  continents,  the  conqueror 
of  Ten  Broeck  in  America,  and  of  Isonomy  in 
^^^^  England.  Parole  won  the  July  Stakes  and 
August  Stakes  at  Monmouth,  and  the  Saratoga  Stakes 
and  Kentucky  Stakes  at  Saratoga.  Cyril  won  the  Cen- 
tral Stakes  at  Baltimore.  These,  with  the  other  win- 
nings of  the  stable,  placed  Mr.  Lorillard  fourth  in  the 
list  of  "Winning  Owners"  for  1875,  with  $18,580; 
Mr.  H.  P.  McGrath  leading,  with  $35,030;  Col.  Mc- 
Daniel  second,  with  $23,565  ;  Mr.  Belmont  third,  with 
$20,015. 

1876 

"The  Centennial  year"  was  born  bright  with  promise 
for  Mr.  Lorillard's  "cherry"  jacket.  Parole's  expedi- 
tion to  Louisville  In  quest  of  the  Kentucky  Derby  was  a 
disastrous  beginning;  but  the  brown  gelding  more  than 
made  amends,  winning  the  Excelsior  and  Sequel  Stakes 
at  Saratoga  and  the  All-Aged  Stakes  at  Jerome  Park, 

in  which  race  he  seemed  to  run  faster 

Parole  Wins  the       ^^  1  tt* 

.„  .    ,  p   ,         than  we   ever  saw   a   horse   run.      His 
All-Aged  Stakes 

brother,  James  A.,  won  the  Inaugural 
Stakes  at  Philadelphia.  Idalla  won  the  Juvenile  and 
Hopeful;  Zoo  Zoo  won  the  July,  Thespian  and  Flash 
Stakes;  Bombast  won  the  Champagne  and  Central; 
Shirley  won  the  Preakness;  Merciless  won  the  Ala- 
bama; Pera  won  the  Chesapeake,  and  Barricade  won 
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Of  these,  Zoo  Zoo  was  the  best,  bar  Parole.  Zoo 
Zoo  was  a  bay  filly  by  Australian  from  Mazurka  by 
Lexington— the  same  cross  that  produced  Attila,  Spring- 
bok, Wildidle,  Rutherford,  Fellowcraft  and 
Spendthrift.  She  was  a  filly  that  would  have 
been  prominent  In  any  year;  a  deep  bay,  with  good 
length  below,  bust  short  above,  that  Is  from  the  withers 
to  the  coupling,  and  with  her  legs  so  well  under  her  that 
she  was  enabled  to  slip  away  from  the  post  and  set  a 
pace  that  carried  her  fields  off  their  feet.  The  season 
of  1876  found  Mr.  Lorillard  second  on  the  list  of 
"Winning  Owners,"  with  $34,338,  of  which  Parole 
won  $8103,  Zoo  Zoo  $4650,  Merciless  $3500,  Idalia 
$3650.  The  leading  owner  was  Hon.  August  Belmont, 
with  $40,800,  largely  won  by  the  filly  Sultana. 

1877 

It  was  with  an  extensive  stable  that  Mr.  Lorillard  be- 
gan the  season  of  1877— nearly  fifty  horses,  fifteen  of 
which  were  three-year-olds  and  twenty-six  two-year- 
olds.  The  stable  did  nothing  great  at  Baltimore. 
Oleaster,  a  filly  which  Mr.  Lorillard  had  taken  in  ex- 
change with  his  brother  for  Idalia,  proved  that  he  had 

made  a  bad  bargain,  as  she  was  of  little 
Bombast  class;  while  Idalia  was  one  of  the  best  of  the 
IV^th  ^  ^   y^^^'    They  did  better  at  Jerome  Park,  where 

Bombast  won  the  Withers  Stakes,  and  at 
Monmouth  he  won  both  the  Ocean  and  the  Robins 

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Stakes.  Zoo  Zoo  had  a  great  season  winning  the  Mary- 
land, Sequel,  Monmouth  Oaks,  West  End  and  Harding 
Stakes. 

For  the  Belmont  Stakes,  a  great  field  came  to  the 
post.  Rifle,  a  colt  belonging  to  Mr.  Galway,  was 
made  favorite  purely  on  the  strength  of  phenomenal 
trials.  Mr.  William  Astor  started  Baden  Baden  (the 
Kentucky  Derby  winner) ,  which  he  had  just  purchased. 
Mr.  Lorlllard  started  Basil,  who  finished  "nowhere," 
but  he  had  met  so  much  Interference  that  he  had  no 
chance.  The  winner  turned  up  in  Mr.  Clabaugh's 
Cloverbrook,  a  big  lathering  chestnut  with  white  face 
and  legs.  He  was  a  son  of  Vauxhall,  and  a  fine  natural 
racer;  but  had  a  trick  of  bolting,  as  his  sire 

The  Basil-       ^^^  \^^iovt  him.    The  result  of  the  Belmont 

Cloverbrook  •  i         i 

Match  w^s  ^^^  considered  a   true   one,   and  Mr. 

Lorlllard  offered  to  match  Basil  against  the 
winner.  It  was  accepted;  a  match  of  $5000  a  side  was 
made  for  a  race  of  a  mile  and  a  quarter.  Cloverbrook 
was  favorite,  and  led  for  half  the  distance,  then  bolted, 
as  he  had  a  habit  of  doing,  and  Basil  won  by  ten  lengths. 
Basil  was  a  gigantic  gelding  by  Melbourne,  Jr.,  from 
Nellie  Grey  by  Lexington.  He  had  a  fiddle  head,  a 
long  lean  neck,  a  long  back  and  stood  high  on  the  leg— 
an  awkward  customer.  But  he  could  gallop;  for,  al- 
though Baden  Baden  defeated  him  for  the  Jersey 
Derby  and  Travers,  he  won  the  Kenner,  although  it 
was  one  of  the  worst  starts  in  the  history  of  racing, 


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Baden  Baden  being  left  at  the  post,  and  broke  down  in 
his  heroic  efforts  to  reach  the  front.  Besides  the  Ken- 
ner,  Basil  won  the  Jerome  and  Annual  Stakes.  Barri- 
cade was  a  useful  horse,  winning  several  races.  Including 
the  Members'  Cup,  ridden  by  Mr.  Frank  Grey  Grls- 
wold,  one  of  the  best  amateur  riders  of  the  period. 
Parole  was  the  mainstay  of  the  stable,  winning  the 
Woodburn  Stakes,  2^  miles;  Maturity  Stakes,  3  miles; 
and  the  Special  Stakes  at  Baltimore,  beating  Ten 
Broeck  and  Tom  Ochiltree. 


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CHAPTER  III 
THE  RACE  FOR  THE  CHAMPIONSHIP 

At  Baltimore  't  was,  in  the  autumn  late. 

"Parole  and  Ten  Broeck"  were  on  every  lip, 
When  the  East  and  the  West  their  issues  joined 
In  the  final  race  for  the  championship 

T  was  Ten  Broeck  led,  three  lengths  ahead; 

With  Ochiltree  second,  they  swept  past  the  stand; 
For  two  miles  they  speed.  Ten  Broeck  in  the  lead, 

Parole  in  the  rear,  but  running  in  hand. 

The  pace  becomes  fast,  Tom  Ochiltree  's  last; 

They  straighten  for  home  at  the  three-quarter  pole. 
As  the  stand  fairly  shook  with  "Come  on.  Ten  Broeck!" 

Then  we  hear  a  shrill  cry  of  "Look  at  Parole!" 

There  rises  a  cheer  as  he  steals  from  the  rear. 

Now  he  's  closing  the  gap,  as  the  cheering  proceeds, 
"Now  he  's  at  Ten  Broeck's  side" — they  race  stride  for  stride 
"Now  he  's  gaining" — "he  's  closing" — "by  heaven,  he  leads!" 

From  the  head  of  the  stretch,  to  the  field,  to  the  stand, 
'Mid  tossing  of  hats,  roll  the  deafening  cheers; 
"Ten  Broeck  's  beaten,"  they  cry,  as  up  goes  Walker's  whip — 
Parole  gallops  home  gaily  pricking  his  ears. 

Oh,  was  n't  he  "cockey,"  that  Lorillard  jockey. 

As  he  rode  back  to  scale,  to  the  judge  raised  his  whip. 
"Weight  's  correct,"  said  the  clerk.    "All  right,"  from  the  stewards. 
Parole  wins  the  race  for  the  championship. 

Parole,  Ten  Broeck  and  Tom  Ochiltree. 


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TEN  BROECK  had  been  proclaimed  "the  horse  of 
the  century"  during  1876  and  1877.  As  a  four- 
year-old  In  1876,  he  had  won  all  his  races  except  the 
one  with  Arlstldes,  and  his  reputation  became  so  great 
that  owners  In  the  West  refused  to  start  horses  against 

him.     He  was  thereupon  given  a  four-mile 

Ten  Broeck  •      ^    t-  n  r^>      .•  /  t/\ 

race   agamst  l^ellowcratt  s  time    (7.19^) 

and  accomplished  It  In  7.15^.  In  1877  he  had  an- 
other career  of  triumphs  In  the  West,  winning  all  his 
races,  and  races  against  time,  In  which  he  established  a 
record  of  1.39^  for  a  mile,  3.27  J^  for  two  miles,  and 
5.26^  for  three  miles.  All  Ten  Broeck's  races  had 
been  In  the  West,  and  now  efforts  were  made  to  bring 
him  East.  His  owner,  Mr.  Harper,  was  not  an  am- 
bitious man.  He  was  content  to  worship  his  Idol  for 
what  he  had  accomplished,  but  at  last  he  yielded,  and 
agreed  to  send  Ten  Broeck  to  the  October  meeting  at 
Baltimore,  where  a  valuable  premium  was  promised. 

Learning  that  Ten  Broeck  would  be  at  Baltimore, 

Mr.  Lorlllard  offered  to  match  Parole  against  Ten 

Broeck  to  run  two  miles  or  two  miles  and  a  half  for 

$5000  a  side.    There  was  no  response; 

The  Race  for  the  thereupon  the  Club  offered  a  sweep- 
Lnamptonship  J 

Stakes,    $500    each,    the    club   to    add 

$1000;   two   miles   and   a   half.      Ten   Broeck,   Tom 

Ochiltree  and  Parole  were  named.     The  race  was  run 

Wednesday,  October  24,  and  aroused  a  greater  Interest 


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throughout  the  country  than  any  race  since  the  Longfel- 
low-Harry Bassett  races  of  1872.  It  was  a  sectional 
race,  the  East  versus  the  West— "a  race  for  the  cham- 
pionship," so  people  called  it,  and  they  came  from  the 
most  distant  points  to  witness  it.  Ten  Broeck  was  an 
overwhelming  favorite,  his  great  record-breaking  feats 
having  made  a  powerful  Impression. 

Tom  Ochiltree  was  the  first  to  appear,  ridden  by 
Barbee.  Then  came  Barrett  in  the  "cherry  and  black" 
on  Parole.  They  were  received  with  applause,  but 
when  Ten  Broeck  came  out  with  Walker  in  the  saddle, 
the  applause  was  greater.  He  was  a  magnificent  speci- 
men   of    the    thoroughbred,    while    Parole 

",J!^\!^  looked  as  rough  as  a  bear  and  as  lean  as  a 
the  Post"  ,  ^     .7  ^         '  , 

snake.      Amid    suppressed    excitement    the 

horses  started  on  their  eventful  journey.  Ten  Broeck 
leading  by  three  lengths,  Ochiltree  second.  Parole  trail- 
ing. The  half  mile  was  slow,  i.ooj^.  Then  Walker 
was  signalled  to  "go  on,"  and,  as  Ochiltree  did  the  same, 
the  pace  sharpened,  and  the  crowd  began  shouting.  At 
the  end  of  the  mile  and  a  half,  they  passed  the  stand 
amid  cheering  that  might  have  been  heard  in  Monu- 
ment Square,  the  Eastern  men  cheering,  the  Western 
followers  of  Ten  Broeck  yelling  like  demons.  It  was 
cheers  answering  cheers,  like  the  noise  of  contending 
armies.  Suddenly,  as  they  turned  toward  the  last  quar- 
ter, there  arose  a  cry  of  "Look  at  Parole!"  Barrett 
had  loosened  his  hold  on  the  brown  gelding,  who  shot 


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up  like  a  rocket  and  closed  on  the  leaders.  Then  there 
was  a  moment  of  quiet  as  the  cheering  ceased.  The 
crowd  was  so  deep  it  was  difficult  to  see  the  horses,  but 
the  next  instant  a  roar  is  heard  at  the  head  of  the 
stretch.  Nearer  and  nearer  it  comes,  and  is  taken  up 
all  along  the  line  to  the  stand.  Then  we  see  the 
"cherry"  jacket  leading,  and  amid  a  scene  baffling  de- 
scription, Parole  drew  away  and  won  by  five  lengths. 

When  Parole  galloped  past  the  post,  the  scene  might 

have  been  compared  to  pandemonium.   During  the  race 

there  had  been  a  fusillade  of  cheering.  Now  a  spirit  of 

quiet   amazement   followed.      The   Ken- 

T^^Bwefr'  ^"^^^^"^  ^^^^  '^^"  Broeck  "could  n't  have 
been  himself,"  and  pointed  to  the  fact 
that  he  scoured  badly  at  the  finish.  Yet  he  came  out 
three  days  later  and  won  the  Bowie  Stakes,  four  mile 
heats.  The  talent  received  a  fearful  blow,  many  re- 
turning home  "dead  broke."  They  could  not  realize 
how  Ten  Broeck  could  be  beaten— and  by  Parole,  who 
had  been  twice  beaten  by  Tom  Ochiltree  a  fortnight 
previous  at  Jerome  Park.  The  fact  as  to  Parole  was 
that  when  he  was  defeated  at  Jerome  Park,  Mr.  Loril- 
lard  had  Dr.  Cattanach  examine  him  and,  finding  he 
had  cracked  heels,  treated  them,  and  the  gelding  im- 
proved immediately.  The  track  was  soft  and  damp 
and  this  favored  Parole.  But  "the  time  was  slow"  — 
4.37^  —  ^^^  the  Kentuckians  claimed  Ten  Broeck  was 
"not  himself."     Mr.  Lorillard  offered  to  run  the  race 

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over  again  at  Jerome  Park  November  6,  and  both 
horses  were  brought  north.  In  his  trial  before  the  race, 
however,  Ten  Broeck  did  not  please  Mr.  Harper,  who 
"scratched"  him,  and  Parole  walked  over.  Possibly, 
the  four  mile  heats  at  Baltimore  had  dulled  Ten 
Broeck's  speed,  otherwise  he  looked  and  acted  well 
enough  when  he  was  brought  out  and  exhibited  before 
the  stand. 

Baltimore,  Oct.  24,   1877.     Grand   Sweepstakes  for  all  ages. 
$500  each,  P.P.,  the  club  to  add  $1000;  two  miles  and  a  half. 
P.   Lorillard's  br.   g.    Parole,   4  yrs.,   by   Leamington- 
Maiden,  105  lbs.  (Barrett) i 

F.  B.  Harper's  b.  h.  Ten  Broeck,  5  yrs.,  by  Phaeton- 
Fanny  Holton,  114  lbs.  (Walker)        .....   2 

G.  L.  Lorillard's  b.  h.  Tom  Ochiltree,  5  yrs.,  by  Lexing- 
ton-Katona,  114  lbs.  (Barbee) 3 

Time:  4.37^- 
Thus  ended  the  great  meeting  of  Parole  and  Ten 
Broeck  for  the  championship.  But  the  Western  men 
were  not  convinced.  There  was  still  talk  of  another 
race.  A  note  was  sent  to  Mr.  Lorlllard  which  brought 
out  the  following  reply : 

"I  have  not  challenged  Ten  Broeck,  but  I  am  willing 

to  run  Parole  against  him  for  $25,000  a  side,  $10,000 

forfeit,  at  Saratoga,  two  and  a  half  miles,  Western 

weights,  dry  track,  and  I  will  allow  Ten 

Mr.  Lorillard's     Bj-q^^j^  ^^^qq  foj.  expenses,  if  the  race  Is 

run.     I  will  also  run  from  my  Rancocas 
stable  a  two-year-old  at  ^  mile,  a  three-year-old  at 


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i^  miles,  a  four-year-old  at  2^  miles,  and  a  five-year- 
old  at  3  miles  against  Western  horses  of  the  same  ages, 
excepting  that  I  will  run  my  five-year-old  against  a 
horse  five  years  old  or  older.  The  four  races  to  be 
run  at  Jerome  Park  or  Saratoga  for  $2500  a  side, 
each  race  $1000  forfeit,  horses  to  be  named  at  the  post. 
This  offer  means  that  I  am  willing  to  run  my  stable 
against  the  pick  of  the  entire  West." 

George  Evans  and  William  Barrett  were  the  stable's 
jockeys  in  1877.  Evans  had  ridden  light-weights  in  the 
stable    of    Mr.    Merry,    in    England,    when    Dundee, 

Marksman,  and  Belladrum  were  carrying 
The  Lorillard      ^^^  yellow  jacket;  and  came  to  America 

in  1873  to  ride  for  Mr.  Belmont.  He 
rode  with  great  success  for  many  years.  Barrett  was 
a  boy  whom  Mr.  Brown,  the  trainer,  picked  up  in  New 
York;  but  he  learned  quickly,  and  rode  Parole  in  many 
races.  For  so  youthful  a  jockey  he  had  great  patience, 
and  could  ride  a  waiting  race  to  perfection.  This  suited 
Parole,  and  the  pair  made  a  strong  combination.  Bar- 
rett's attitude  in  the  saddle  was  not  so  exaggerated  an 
example  of  the  "monkey  seat,"  as  the  English  call  the 
more  modern  American  style.  His  "set-to"  in  a  finish 
was  not  especially  vigorous,  but  his  overhand  whipping, 
for  one  so  apparently  delicate,  was  very  effective. 


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CHAPTER  IV 
RACING,   1878 

Here  's  to  Lexington's  latest — the  last  of  his  breed, 
From  forehead  to  fetlock,  true  son  of  his  sire; 

Fit  to  run  for  a  crown,  at  a  kingdom's  last  need, 
Compact  of  the  whirlwind,  and  Heaven's  own  fire. 

UNCAS,  foaled  In  1876,  was  one  of  the  last  of  the 
Lexingtons,  his  dam  Coral  by  Vandal,  his 
grandam  the  Imported  mare  Calrngorme  by  Cother- 
stone.  He  was  a  marked  colt  from  the  day  of  his 
birth.  Mr.  Withers  made  a  trip  to  Kentucky  In  '77 
with  the  express  purpose  of  attending  the 
Lhe  ast  of  ^^j^  ^£  ^j^^  Woodburn  yearlings  and  buy- 
the  Lexingtons       .  1       1      1       1  •    1  •    •  r  1  • 

mg  him,  as  he  had  a  high  opinion  of  his 

elder  brother  Wanderer.  But  his  driver  took  the  wrong 
road,  and  when  he  arrived  the  colt  had  been  sold  to 
Mr.  Lorlllard  for  $3100;  and  when  Mr.  Brown,  the 
Rancocas  trainer,  met  Barney  Riley  after  the  trial  of 
the  yearlings  he  remarked,  "Barney,  you  've  seen  some 
pretty  fast  colts  tried  at  Rancocas,  but  they  've  just 
tried  one  that  beat  anything  ever  done  there." 

In  color  Uncas  was  a  bay  with  a  star  and  right  fore- 


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foot  white.  He  rather  lacked  length  and  stood  15.2, 
with  good  shoulders,  although  rather  heavy  at  the 
points.  There  was  a  lack  of  length  from  his  elbows  to 
his  coupling,  but  he  had  a  "picture  head,"  a  fine  round- 
ness of  rib  in  Its  curve  from  the  spine,  powerful 
quarters  and  gaskins,  unusual  depth  of  brisket, 
excellent  feet  and  legs.  But  he  was  very  highly  organ- 
ized, very  excitable,  and  would  not  always  try.  He  won 
the  Kentucky  Stakes  at  Saratoga  In  such  brilliant  fash- 
ion that  at  the  end  of  the  season  he  was  sent  to  England. 
The  bare  expanse  of  Newmarket  seemed  to  frighten 
him.  He  delayed  the  start  for  the  Two  Thousand 
Guineas  and  was  brought  home  the  next  season  and 
raced  with  success.  He  took  a  violent  dislike  to  Bar- 
bee  after  the  jockey  had  given  him  "a  dose  of  whale- 
bone," and  at  the  sound  of  Barbee's  voice  would  become 
furious.  It  was  not  until  they  put  Shauer  up  that  he 
would  run  kindly,  his  Grand  National  Handicap  being 
a  fine  exhibit  of  gameness,  he  beating  Monitor  and 
Firenzi  a  nose  in  a  desperate  finish.  Uncas  followed  in 
the  footsteps  of  his  brother  Wanderer  as  a  winner  of 
the  Westchester  Cup  on  his  return  from  England.  But 
while  highly  excitable,  he  was  nothing  to  Wanderer, 
who  was  a  "stall  walker"  and  could  be  heard  tramping 
In  his  box  at  all  hours  of  the  night.  Mr.  Withers  never 
lost  sight  of  Uncas  and,  when  he  retired  In  1882,  pur- 
chased him,  saying,  "If  I  could  n't  have  him  for  racing, 
I  can  have  him  for  a  sire."    In  his  first  season  at  Brook- 


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dale  he  sired  Laggard,  and  nothing  ever  gladdened  the 
heart  of  "the  old  gentleman  in  black"  so  much  as  when 
Laggard  won  the  Omnibus  Stakes  of  '87,  defeating 
Hanover  and  Firenzi. 

Parole  made  a  clean  sweep  of  the  Cup  races  of  1878, 

winning  the  Baltimore,  Monmouth  and  Saratoga  Cups, 

and  in  October  was  shipped  to  England  with  Duke  of 

Magenta,  which  Mr.  Lorillard  had  pur- 

^hecl  T'"'      ^^^^^"^  ^^  ^'^  brother.    Perfection  won  the 
Doswell  Stakes.     Spartan  won  the  Jersey 
Derby,   beating   Duke  of   Magenta,   and   a  match   in 
which  he  defeated  Dwyer  Brothers'  Bramble,  $2500  a 
side.     Garrick  won  the  Manhattan  Handicap,  Board- 
man  won  the  Central  and  Barnum's  Hotel  Stakes,  Bay- 
ard won  the  Pimlico  Stakes,  Judith  won  the  Chesapeake 
Stakes.     Spartan  was  a  very  highly  tried  colt 
P^^  ^^      by  Lexington  from  Lulu  Horton  by  Albion, 
but  hit  himself  at  work  and  his  leg,  filling,  rendered  him 
useless  soon  after  he  had  defeated  Bramble.     Garrick, 
by  Lexington  from  Inverness  by  Macaroni,  was  a  very 
attractive  colt,  a  neat  brown,  but  rather  on  the  small 
side.     Boardman  was  a  bay  by  Bonnie  Scot- 
land from  Woodbine  by  Lexington,  and  was 
a  very  smoothly  turned  one,  higher  on  the  leg  than  most 
Bonnie  Scotlands  and  rather  narrow  for  one  of  that 
tribe,  but  he  lacked  the  toughness  of  the  family.     The 
stable's  winnings  for  1878  amounted  to  $32,905. 

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CHAPTER  V 
THE  CAMPAIGN  IN  ENGLAND,  1 879-1 882 

I  thought  he  was  expounding  the  law  and  the  prophets,  but,  on 
drawing  a  little  nearer,  I  found  that  he  was  warmly  expatiating 
upon  the  merits  of  a  brown  horse. — Bracebridge  Hall. 

1879 

IT  was  on  the  19th  of  October,  1878,  that  the  Lorll- 
lard  horses  sailed  from  New  York  for  England  by 
the  ship  England  of  the  National  Line.  The  lot  con- 
sisted of  Parole,  Uncas,  Friar,  Boreas,  Cherokee,  Pap- 
poose,  Nereid  and  Geraldlne,  the  last  six  yearlings.  On 
November  9,  Duke  of  Magenta,  the  champion  three- 
year-old  of  the  year,  followed  them  on  the  ship  Egypt, 
with  William  Brown,  the  trainer,  and  Hughes,  Fisher 

and  Barrett,  the  jockeys.  But,  as  In  the  case 
Eld       ^^   Falsetto   later,    Duke   of   Magenta   was 

destined  never  to  carry  the  cherry  jacket. 
The  colt  contracted  a  violent  Influenza  on  the  passage 
and  never  could  be  trained.  He  was  brought  home  the 
following  September  In  company  with  Uncas. 

If  the  English  judged  the  "American  type"  by  Pa- 
role and  Duke  of  Magenta,  they  must  have  been  sorely 

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puzzled.  Parole  was  very  long  and  narrow;  the  Duke 
was  short  and  almost  "cobby."  Parole  had  a  lean  "var- 
mlnty"  head;  the  Duke  had  a  fine  Roman  head.  Pa- 
role's neck  (he  was  a  gelding)  was  very  light;  the  Duke 
was  bull-necked.     Parole  was  very  deep  in  the  brisket, 

but  had  light  back  ribs;  the  Duke  was 
Parole  and  deeply  ribbed  back  to  the  coupling.  Parole 
X,"  ^^1  had  beautifully  Inclined  shoulders ;  the  Duke 

had  well  Inclined  but  heavy  shoulders.  Pa- 
role had  fine  quarters,  but  those  of  the  Duke  were  mas- 
sive. Parole  had  a  long,  light  stride,  and,  like  long- 
striding  horses,  he  was  not  a  quick  starter,  requiring 
time  to  settle  into  his  stride;  his  long  stride  made  It 
difficult  for  him  to  force  the  pace  from  the  start— he 
won  his  races  by  lying  away  and  coming  with  a  burst  of 
speed  at  the  finish.  The  Duke  was  a  short  strider;  he 
raced  all  the  way,  a  model  of  perpetual  motion. 

"Why,  here  's  old  Leamington,  only  not  quite  so  big," 
exclaimed  Tom  Aldcroft,  the  old  jockey,  when  he  saw 
Parole  being  led  into  Newmarket.  Aldcroft  had  ridden 
Leamington  In  England  In  1858,  and  felt  a  kindly  Inter- 
est In  his  son.  But  the  English  critics  were  not  at- 
tracted by  Parole.  On  April  16,  1879,  Parole  started 
for  the  Newmarket  Handicap,  ij,^  miles,  with  116 
lbs.,  and  won  by  a  length  from  Isonomy 

Parole  De-  /  ^       j^^^ ) ,  one  of  the  best  English  horses 

feats  Isonomy  . 

of  modern  times.     When  he  was  sent  to 

England,  Mr.  Lorlllard  had  no  great  expectations  of 

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Parole.  The  gelding  was  six  years  old,  and  It  was 
hardly  expected  he  would  retain  his  speed.  It  was 
thought  that  he  would  at  least  be  useful  as  a  trial  horse 
for  Duke  of  Magenta. 

Newmarket,  April  i6,  1879.  Newmarket  Handicap.  25  sovs. 
each,  10  forfeit;  400  added;  i^  miles;  39  subs. 

P.   Lorillard's   br.   g.    Parole,   6  yrs.,   by   Leamington- 
Maiden,  116  lbs.  (Morbey) i 

F.  Gretton's  b.  c.  Isonomy,  4  yrs.,  124  lbs.  (Goater)        .    2 

Count  La  Grange's  ch.  m.  Lina,  6  yrs.,  106  lbs. (Morris)    3 

Lord  Hartington's  b.  f.  Rylstone,  5  yrs.,  119  lbs.   (Jef- 
frey)         o 

Sir  J.   D.   Astley's   b.   h.   Drumhead,   6   yrs.,    100   lbs. 
(Brogden) o 

Lord   Fitzwilliam's   b.    c.    The    Dean,    3    yrs.,    78   lbs. 
(Greaves) o 

Betting:  100  to  15  against  Parole. 

Of  course  Parole's  defeat  of  Isonomy  created  a  sen- 
sation In  England.  English  critics  did  not  fancy  "his 
light  neck"  or  "his  rough  coat"— they  said  he  was  "a 
lazy  horse."  As  Mr.  Brown,  his  trainer,  said,  "I  know 
he  's  not  the  showy  kind  they  like,  but  wait  till  they  see 
him  extended."  On  April  22  Parole  started  for  the 
City  and  Suburban — the  greatest  of  the  English  spring 
handicaps.  Eighteen  started.  Parole  with 
Parole  Wins  j  j^  j^s,  ^as  at  4  to  i.  and  with  Fred  Ar- 
the  City  and  1         •       1  in         t  t 

c  L    L  Cher  m  the  saddle.     He  won  m  a  common 

canter  by  a  length  from  RIdotto.     If  the 
Newmarket  Handicap  had  created  a  sensation,  the  City 

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and  Suburban  created  a  greater  one.  But  the  day  fol- 
lowing (April  23),  the  old  gelding  came  out  again,  this 
time  for  the  Great  Metropolitan,  2j4  miles.  His  vic- 
tory the  day  before  had  frightened  off  all  opposition 
except  Castlereagh.  He  had  no  lbs.,  Parole  124  lbs., 
and  Parole  won  pulled  double. 

Now  it  was  "Brother  Jonathan's  wonderful  race- 
horse."   The  Sporting  Life  said :  "Light-necked,  rough- 
coated,   leggy  and  curby-hocked.    Parole   without   his 
name  and  deeds  would  have  been  passed 

''Brother  Jona-  by.     'Rough  and  ready'  is  a  good  motto 

than's  Wonder-  ,-  n  r        1  j     1 

r  /  D  L  «  ror  men  as  well  as  tor  horses,  and  the 
ful  Kace-horse  ^  '    ^ 

Americans  seem  to  have  applied  it.  Yet 
there  are  people  who  say  England  is  a  great  nation. 
Over-education,  pampering,  free  trade  and  the  defeat 
of  Ridotto  are  ruining  the  country,  and  the  sooner  we 
get  back  to  home  truths  the  better.  Give  us  then  the 
good  old  rough  and  ready  business;  do  not  let  us  be- 
lieve in  'fashion'  in  breeding  so  much  as  we  have  done, 
and  so  learn  the  lesson  that  'a  horse  is  a  horse.'  "  The 
Sporting  Times  said:  "The  three-year-old  Uncas  is,  we 
hear,  within  21  lbs.  of  Parole,  and  on  the  Rowley  Mile 
is  just  two  seconds  behind  him.  He  was  tried  'by  the 
clock'  the  other  day,  and  pleased  his  trainer  wonder- 
fully. Brown  has  made  the  Newmarket  trainers  stare. 
They  see  a  flag  dropped  and  look  out  for  something 
great.  All  they  behold  is  'a  solitary  horseman.'  " 
But  the  sensation  Parole's  victories  created  in  Eng- 

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land  was  as  nothing  to  the  sensation  they  caused  here. 
The  public  and  press  went  wild  over  them,  and  even 

that  element  that  had  always  dispar- 
Effect  of  Parole's  ^ged  Parole  at  home  admitted  "he  was 
Am  rica  ^  better  horse  than  they  had  thought." 

The  impulse  Parole's  success  gave  to 
racing  was  enormous.  People  that  had  never  attended 
races  became  interested,  the  attendance  at  the  races  in- 
creased, new  racing  clubs  were  formed,  among  them  the 
Coney  Island  Jockey  Club  and  Brighton  Beach  Asso- 
ciation. Social  clubs  were  named  for  Parole,  there 
were  Parole  poolrooms.  Parole  saloons,  Parole  billiard 
parlors,  and  Parole  baseball  clubs.  Mr.  Lorillard  was 
given  a  dinner  at  which  Mr.  Jerome  presided  and 
speeches  were  made  by  Mr.  Withers,  Judge  Monson, 
and  Mr.  Keene,  while  Mr.  Belmont,  confined  to  the 
house  by  an  accident,  sent  Mr.  Lorillard  a  letter  offer- 
ing as  a  toast:  "The  Lorillard  Stable  In  England:  May 
the  younger  stable  companions  of  Parole 

mner  o        show  as  clean  a  pair  of  heels  to  their 
Mr.  Lonllard  .  ^ 

competitors   on   the   English   or   French 

turf."     During  the  evening,  Mr.  Lorillard  offered  to 

bet  one  to  four  that  he  could  name  the  sires  of  the  first 

three  colts  In  the  race  for  the  Belmont  Stakes  soon  to 

be  run  at  Jerome  Park.    The  bet  was  taken  around  the 

table   and  $16,000   in   various   sums   collected.      Mr. 

Lorillard  named  two  Leamingtons  and  one  Australian. 

He  also  stated  he  had  bought  Parole's  dam  Maiden, 

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with  her  suckling  brother  to  Parole,  called  Powhatan, 
for  $10,000. 

The  entire  country  from  Maine  to  California,  thence 
to  the  Gulf,  rang  with  praises  of  the  old  gelding. 
Among  them  the  following,  by  "some  mute  inglorious 
Milton,"  appeared  in  one  of  the  sporting  newspapers: 

THE  CITY  AND  SUBURBAN 

When,  for  the  start,  the  flag  it  fell, 
"They  're  ofE!"  some  fifty  thousand  yell; 
And  soon  there  '11  be  a  tale  to  tell- 
So  went  Parole. 

Some  eighteen  started  in  the  lot, 
And,  though  the  pace  was  very  hot, 
Straight  to  the  front  the  Yankee  shot — 
So  went  Parole. 

Although  his  company  was  good. 
The  stranger  wished  it  understood, 
To  go  in  first  he  could  and  would — 

So  went  Parole. 

The  mile  was  reached — no  change  occurred — 
And  all,  save  one,  were  whipped  and  spurred; 
But  Archer's  whip  it  never  stirred — 

So  went  Parole. 

They  're  in  the  straight — now  comes  the  dash 
For  English  prestige  and  her  cash; 
But  see!  they  both  have  gone  to  smash — 
In  goes  Parole. 

May  7,   Parole  started  for  the  Chester  Cup,    154 
miles,  with  124  lbs.,  but  was  beaten,  finishing  fourth  to 

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Reefer,  4  years,  98  lbs. ;  Touchet,  5  years,  126  lbs. ;  and 
RIdotto,  4  years,  106  lbs.  Parole  was  favorite  at  6  to  4 
on;  5  to  2  against  Reefer.  It  was  said  Archer  made 
his  run  with  Parole  too  soon.  However,  the  day  fol- 
lowing, Parole,  with  134  lbs.,  started  for  the  Great 
Cheshire  Stakes,  and  this  time,  lying  well 

^^^,^     ^"^,        back,  came  with  a  rush  at  the  finish  and 
'With  154  Lbs. 

won  by  three  lengths,  turnmg  the  tables 
on  Reefer,  who,  with  1 18  lbs., was  second.  TheLondon 
Sportsman  spoke  of  Parole's  dash  of  speed  as  "some- 
thing electrical."  The  Sporting  Life,  explaining  Reef- 
er's loss  of  the  cup,  said:  "Nothing  can  be  more  con- 
clusive that  something  was  wrong,  than  the  frightful 
exhibition  Parole  made  of  his  field  the  very  next  day. 
With  the  steadier  of  9  st.  8  lbs.  he  smothered  his  horses 
and  left  them  almost  standing  still." 

May  30,  Parole,  with  125  lbs.  up,  won  the  Epsom 

Gold  Cup,  I  J/2  miles.    At  Ascot  he  was  beaten  for  the 

Ascot  Stakes  with  125  lbs.,  RIdotto,  the  winner,  having 

109  lbs.    For  the  Goodwood  Cup  he  was 

f^^^,/^^        beaten  by  Isonomy.     He  was  third  for 
the  Gold  Cup  •'  / 

the  Great  Yorkshire  Handicap,  with  125 
lbs.;  the  winner,  Dresden  China,  48  lbs.  He  had  118 
lbs.  In  the  Cesarewltch,  which  Chippendale,  103  lbs., 
won.  For  the  Great  Challenge  Stakes,  six  furlongs, 
Parole,  with  126  lbs.,  was  unplaced  to  Rayon  d'Or. 
After  having  been  prepared  for  the  Cesarewltch,  which 
Is  over  two  miles,  It  was  asking  a  lot  of  Parole  to  meet 

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the  younger  horse  at  six  furlongs.  Thus  Parole  won 
five  races  and  $19,403. 

As  to  Mr.  Lorlllard's  other  horses  In  1879,  Pappoose 
won  the  Spring  Stakes  at  Newmarket  and  Geraldlne 
won  the  Levant  Stakes  at  Goodwood.  Pappoose  was  a 
full  sister  to  Parole,  and  performed  creditably,  as  she 
was  placed  In  three  races  out  of  six;  while  Geraldlne 
(by  Saxon-GIrl  of  the  Period)  was  placed  In  three  out 
of  five.  Uncas  started  for  the  Two  Thousand  Guineas, 
but  he  cut  up  so  badly  that  he  was  sent  back  to  New 
York,  having  shown  utter  unwillingness  to  race  over 
the  turf  courses  of  England.  The  stable's  winnings  In 
Its  first  season  In  England  amounted  to  $26,503. 

Encouraged  by  Parole's  success  and  an  Increased 
fancy  for  the  get  of  Leamington,  In  May,  1879,  Mr. 
Lorlllard  and  his  brother,  Mr.  George  L.  Lorlllard, 
made  with  Mr.  Welch  of  Chestnut  Hill,  Pa.,  an  agree- 
ment to  take  his  entire  lot  of  Leamington  yearlings.  In 
the  division  "Mr.  George"  took  the  Megara  filly  (since 
known  as  Splnaway)  ;  the  Lemonade  colt,  Saunterer; 
the  Lady  Motley  colt.  Blazes;  the  Medora  colt,  and  the 

Mundane  filly.  Mr.  Pierre  Lorlllard 
Reinforcements       ^^^y,   ^j^^  jg^|j      p^U^j.  ^jj       ^^^   Maiden 

from  America  ,      ivt  •     m        1      t-i      1       r  t  •    1 

filly,  the  Nemesis  hlly,  the  Mash  of  Light- 
ning colt,  the  Mary  Clark  filly,  the  Delight  colt,  and 
the  Maggie  B.  B.  colt.  The  colt  last  named  was  des- 
tined to  become  famous  as  Iroquois.  At  the  time, 
Iroquois  was  not  as  advanced  as  some  of  the  others, 

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and  Mr.  Lorillard  offered  him  to  his  brother  for 
$7000.  Nothing  came  of  it,  however,  and  the  yearhngs 
reached  Rancocas  May  30,  and  early  in  the  autumn, 
after  having  been  broken,  Iroquois  was  shipped  to  Eng- 
land with  the  yearlings  Mohawk,  Santee,  Dakota,  Pas- 
saic, Paw  Paw,  Seneca  and  Wyandotte.  With  them 
went  the  three-year-old  Falsetto  (by  Enquirer-Farfa- 
letta).  It  was  said  Falsetto  ran  one  of  the  greatest 
trials  ever  run  at  Newmarket,  but  he  became  lame,  and 
finding  it  impossible  to  train  him,  he  was  sent  home  the 
following  year  and  entered  the  stud  in  1881. 

1880 

The  victories  of  Parole  in  the  spring  of  1879  were  not 
forgotten  by  reason  of  his  defeats  later  that  season. 
Neither  he  nor  any  horse  in  the  stable  ever  escaped  the 
handicapper's   attention   after  that.      This   was   quite 

evident  when  the  weights  appeared  for 
mights  on  the  ^^^  •  handicaps  of  1 8 80.  For  the 
Amertcan  Horses      ^  •        i      1  •  t^        1       .      1  •    1 

Lmcolnshire,    Parole    had   top   weight, 

126  lbs.  For  the  Newmarket,  Falsetto  had  129  lbs.— 
top  weight;  Parole  next,  with  126  lbs.  For  the  Inter- 
national, Parole  had  top  weight,  130  lbs.;  Falsetto, 
126  lbs.  For  the  Prince  of  Wales  Handicap,  Parole 
had  top  weight,  144  lbs.,  being  asked  to  concede  a 
three-year-old  53  lbs.  For  the  City  and  Suburban, 
Parole  had  top  weight,  130  lbs.;  Master  Kildare,  128 
lbs. ;  Falsetto,  124  lbs. 

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Parole  made  his  appearance  in  the  Liverpool  Cup, 

1%  miles,  March  17,  and  with  the  top  weight,  131  lbs., 

won  by  half  a  length  from  a  field  of  nine. 

The  Liverpool  g^^  Archer,  who  rode  the  second  horse, 
Cup 

Advance,  lodged  an  objection  to  Parole 

on  the  ground  of  a  "cross."     The  English  rule   (No. 

32)  disqualified  a  horse  crossing  another,  unless  he  had 

two  clear  lengths  in  the  lead.     The  stew- 

r^!"^^  ,.r  ,  ards  disqualified  Parole  and  gave  the  race 
Disqualified  ^   ^     ^  ,   ,  ^.  , 

to  Advance,  an  aged  horse  with  116  lbs. 

So  inconsequential  was  the  "cross"  considered  that, 
while  the  case  was  pending,  bookmakers  laid  4  to  i  on 
Parole  getting  the  race,  while  the  London  Referee 
bluntly  said,  "People  remarked  that  it  looked  strange 
for  such  a  right-away  rider  as  Archer  entering  a  pro- 
test when,  for  once,  he  gets  done  at  his  own  game." 
Parole  did  not  win  again  in  England.  He  ran  second 
for  the  Epsom  Gold  Cup  and  late  in  the  summer  was 
sent  home  to  New  York. 

Boreas  was  Mr.  Lorillard's  starter  for  the  Derby 
and  ran  unplaced.  Dakota,  Seneca,  and  Sly  Dance 
failed  to  win.  Mistake,  and  Passaic,  also,  were  not 
brilliant.  Paw  Paw,  a  sister  to  Parole,  was  a  fine  filly. 
She  was  second  for  the  Stanley  Stakes,  and  won  the 
Molecomb  Stakes  at  Goodwood,  but  died  soon  after. 
Wallenstein,  a  son  of  Waverly,  won  the  Newmarket 
Handicap  which  Parole  had  won  the  year  before. 

But  Iroquois,  the  brown  two-year-old  by  Leamington- 

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Maggie  B.  B.,  made  amends.  He  won  the  Newmarket 
Two-years-old  Plate,  was  unplaced  for  the  Woodcote, 
won  the  Two-years-old  Stake  at  Epsom,  was 
Iroquois  ^^^i^^.^^  f^^  the  New  Stakes  at  Ascot,  second 
for  the  July  Stakes,  won  the  Chesterfield  Stakes,  won 
the  Levant  Stakes,  was  second  for  the  Findon,  and  un- 
placed for  the  Champagne.  It  was  the  race  for  the 
July  Stakes  that  first  attracted  attention  to  Iroquois,  for 
In  that  he  ran  second  to  the  famous  Bal  Gal,  beaten 
only  a  head  with  Thebals  and  other  good  ones  behind 
him.  It  was  then  that  Mr.  Griswold  says  Matthew 
Dawson  remarked  to  Mr.  Puryear,  who  managed  the 
Lorillard  stable,  that  Bal  Gal  was  the  fleetest  two-year- 
old  he  had  ever  trained,  and  any  colt  good 
MatthewDaw-    enough  to  come  within  a  head  of  beating 

sons  pinion  ^  ^^  Iroquols  had  in  the  July  Stakes,  was 
of  Iroquois  '  ^  .  -^     ^ 

good  enough  to  win  the  Derby.     In  the 

Chesterfield,  Iroquois  won  by  three  lengths  with  Tris- 
tan and  eight  others  behind  him,  while  in  the  Levant  he 
had  defeated  Isonomy's  younger  sister  Isola  Madre, 
and  conceded  weight  to  all  the  starters.  The  stable's 
record  in  England  for  1880  was  eight  races  won,  and 
$22,500. 


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CHAPTER  VI 
WINNING  THE  DERBY  AND  ST.  LEGER 

How  the  Derby  was  founded,  all  full  well  know, 

Over  a  hundred  years  ago; 
But  little  't  was  thought  the  event  would  grow 

In  after  years  so  weighty. 
By  those  who  formed  the  company,  gay, 

On  that  original  Derby  Day, 
When  Diomed  won  on  the  fourth  of  May, 

In  seventeen  hundred  and  eighty. 

1881 

MISTAKE  began  the  season  of  1881  for  the  Lorll- 
lard  stable,  finishing  second  for  the  Lincolnshire 
Handicap,  with  100  lbs.  to  Buchanan,  4  years,  94  lbs.; 
and  for  the  Newmarket  Handicap  he  was  also  second, 
but  he  won  the  International  Handicap,  and  was  third 
for  the  Great  Metropolitan.  Wallenstein  was  second 
for  the  Liverpool  Cup  and  won  the  Great  Shropshire 
Handicap.  Barrett  was  unable  to  win  a  race  of  any 
kind,  and  was  sent  home,  landing  In  New  York  late  in 
August  and  raced  at  Jerome  Park  soon  after. 

On  the  4th  of  May,  the  stable  started  Iroquois  and 
Passaic  for  the  Two  Thousand  Guineas,  and  so  little 

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was  thought  of  them  that  the  odds  were  50  to  i.  There 
was    a    story   current    that    Passaic   had 

The  Race  for      ^^^^^^^  Iroquois  In  a  trial,  but  for  the  race 
'%e  Guineas         t^         - 

Passaic   went   out    and   made    the   pace. 

Peregrine  won  the  race,  Iroquois  finished  second,  while 

Passaic  was  beaten  off.    Two  days  later,  Iroquois  won 

the  Newmarket  Stakes,  beating  Lennoxlove,  and  May  7 

he  walked  over  for  the  Burwell  Stakes  at  Newmarket. 

The  Derby  was  run  June  i.    Peregrine  was  the  favorite 

at  6  to  5,  with  Iroquois  at  1 1  to  2,  Geologist  13  to  2, 

St.  Louis  12  to  I.     Fifteen  started.     The  good  race 

Iroquois  had  run  for  the  Guineas,  and  the  fact  that 

Archer  was  to  ride,  made  him  a  following,  the  London 

Cuckoo  giving  him  as  Its  "tip"  In  the  following  Hla- 

wathan  verse: 

If  you  ask  me  what  the  chances 

For  the  winner  and  the  places 

In  the  Derby  stakes  to-morrow, 

The  great  race  of  the  palefaces, 

For  the  Riband  Blue  of  Epsom, 

I  would  answer,  I  would  tell  jou: 

Go  to  where  the  red  man's  river, 

Peopled  close  with  bream  and  beaver, 

Rushes  down  from  pine-clad  mountains, 

Haunt  of  grizzly  and  of  eagle, 

Where  the  Iroquois,  the  brownskin, 

Cuts  the  willows  by  the  water 

For  his  traps,  to  catch  the  beaver; 

Where  the  Iroquois,  the  brownskin. 

Trims  his  plume  of  cherry  feathers. 

Ravished  from  the  dead  flamingo, 

Sets  them  in  his  raven  tresses. 

Crying,  Ho!  the  brown-skin  warrior 

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Overhead  sees  in  the  heavens, 
Circling  high  and  circling  higher, 
Keen  of  eye  and  swift  of  pinion. 
Chief  of  birds  and  king  of  falcons. 
Peregrine,  by  far  the  noblest 
Of  all  birds  that  fly  above  us; 
Russet  brown  his  dainty  plumage; 
Ruddy  red  his  beak  and  talons; 
But  the  Iroquois,  the  brownskin, 
Knows  the  secret  how  to  tame  him — 
How  to  make  the  falcon  lower 
Ruddy  head  and  russet  plumage 
To  the  black  and  cherry  colors 
That  the  brownskin  bears  so  proudly; 
For  he  trims  his  arrows  deftly. 
Does  this  swift  and  dexterous  Archer, 
Does  this  hero  of  the  pigskin, 
Hero  of  a  thousand  Derbys, 
And  the  brownskin  learned  his  secret 
In  the  city  by  the  river. 
In  St.  Louis,  where  the  whiteface. 
Where  Sir  John,i  the  wobbler's  patron, 
Mourns  his  dollars  and  his  greenbacks 
Piled  upon  the  scarlet  colors, 
Piled  upon  the  son  of  Hermit. 

The   race   for  the   Derby  needs  httle  description. 

Iroquois  was  first  away,  but  Archer  eased  him,  laid 

away,   and  coming  at  the   right   moment,   won   easily 

by  half  a  length.     The  London  Sporting 

^oqiiois     ins    j^.f    commented:  "Hats  off  to  America! 
the  Derby  •' 

Lorlllard,    Iroquois,     Pincus,    Archer,     I 

salute  ye!     Pincus  was  said  to  be  galloping  his  horses 

1  The  "Sir  John"  alluded  to  above  was  Sir  John  Astley,  who 
had  backed  Weston,  "the  wobbler,"  in  his  six-day  pedestrian 
match  with  O'Leary. 

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to  death,  but  PIncus  in  Iroquois  has  produced  a  colt 
capable  of  winning  the  greatest  race  in  the  world.  That 
he  had  a  sterling  bit  of  stuff  to  work  upon  cannot  be 
denied;  neither  can  it  be  doubted  that  the  Americans 
make  up  their  minds  to  find  out  whether  their  horses 
can  stand  real  hard  work  or  not.  They  must  either  'go' 
or  'crack.'  Iroquois  did  not  crack,  he  'go'ed.'  The 
two-mile  gallops  he  was  sent  in  training  were  also  con- 
clusive that  what  latent  stamina  he  had  would  be  devel- 
oped. That  Iroquois  has  developed  into  a  stayer,  the 
Derby  proves.  Peregrine  failed  to  stay  and  St.  Louis 
was  beaten  the  moment  it  came  to  racing." 

Epsom,  June  i,  1881.  The  Derby  Stakes  for  three-year-olds. 
50  sovs.  each,  h.  f . ;  i^  miles;  243  subs. 

P.  Lorillard's  br.  c.  Iroquois,  by  Leamington-Maggie 
B.  B.  (Archer) i 

R.  W.   Grosvenor's  br.   c.   Peregrine,  by   Pero  Gomez 
(Webb) 2 

Lord  Rosebery's  b.  c.  Town  Moor,  by  Doncaster  (Le- 
malre) 3 

Scobell,  Cumberland,  Voluptuary,  Tristan,  Limestone,  Geol- 
ogist, Fortissimo,  CuUoden,  Don  Fulano,  Fortune's  Favorite, 
St.  Louis  and  Marshal  Macdonald  ran  unplaced. 

When  the  news  reached  New  York  shortly  after  11 
A.M.,    it    produced    the    wildest    hilarity. 

Effect  of  the         ^^  ^^^  hotels  men  slapped  each  other  on 

Derby  Victory 

inNewYork         ^^^  back,   and  drank  the  health  of  the 

"first  American  horse  to  win  the  Derby." 

Others  flocked  to  familiar  rendezvous  to  meet  their 

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sporting   friends;   the   evening  newspapers  printed   In 
mammoth  head-lines,  "Another  American  Victory."    It 
was  race  day  at  Jerome  Park,  and  shortly  before  noon 
Judge  Monson,  assuming  the  role  of  herald,  rushed 
from  stable  to  stable  shouting,  "Iroquois  has  won  the 
Derby!     Iroquois  has  w^on  the  Derby!"     The  Juvenile 
Stakes  was  run  that  day,  and  Gerald,  destined  to  be 
Iroquois's    successor    as    a    Lorlllard    starter    for    the 
Derby  of  the  next  year,  finished  second  to 
Rejoicings—        Onondaga.     Dave  Clark,  who  held  the 
Z^Tomahawk     Starter's  advance  flag,  had  It  decorated 
with  the  name  of  Iroquois  and  a  huge 
tomahawk.     That  day,  and  far  Into  the  evening,  re- 
porters besieged  Mr.  Lorlllard's  residence  for  an  Inter- 
view, but  he  eluded  them.     At  the  theatres,  allusions 
made  by  the  actors  to  the  brown  hero  of  Epsom  evoked 
thunders  of  applause.     At  the  Bijou  they  were  singing 
the  "Mascotte."     When,  In  the  opera,   PIppo  asked 
Prince  Lorenzo,  "Do  you  want  the  earth?"  the  latter 
replied,  "No;  I  want  Iroquois,"  and  the  house  fairly 
rose  at  him. 

In  England  the  result  of  the  Derby  was  received 
differently.  Some  declined  to  consider  Iroquois  an 
American  colt,  as  he  w^as  the  son  of  an  English  sire. 
Others  solaced  themselves  by  concluding  that  It  was  "an 
off  year"  for  three-year-olds.  We  took  occasion  to 
write  Mr.  PIncus  a  congratulatory  letter  and  received 
the  following  reply : 

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The  Hermitage,  Newmarket, 

June  30,  1 88 1. 
Dear  Mr.  Vosburgh:  Yours  of  the  nth  duly  re- 
ceived; thanks  for  friendly  expressions.  We  would 
have  won  a  ton  [on  Derby]  If  we  had  left  Barrett  In 
America,  he  being  backed  several  weeks  before,  and  not 
being  a  four-miler,  could  n't  think  of  It.  Remember  me 
to  all  at  home.  Say  they  are  all  mistaken  as  to  the  trial 
of  Iroquois  and  Passaic,  or  the  former  making  the  run- 
ning for  the  latter  In  the  Guineas,  but  vice  versa. 
Yours  very  truly, 

J.  PiNCUS. 

At  Ascot,  June  14,  Iroquois,  ridden  by  Archer,  car- 
ried 131  lbs.  for  the  Prince  of  Wales  Stakes  and  won, 
beating  Geologist  and  five  others.     Two  days  later  he 

won  the  St.  James's  Palace  Stakes,  beat- 

Iroquois  Wins        •        y  t^i  1  •  j.-        r 

r.  mg  Leon.    1  hen  came  his  preparation  tor 

the  St.  Leger,  for  which  "the  brownskin" 
now  "trimmed  his  plume  of  cherry  feathers."  The  St. 
Leger  was  fixed  for  September  14,  and  he  had  a  nice 
Interval  of  three  months.  His  St.  Leger  preparation 
became  a  puzzle  to  the  denizens  of  Newmarket.  The 
Sporting  Life  of  September  10  reported  Iroquois 
"lame  In  the  near  fore  leg"  and  named  Limestone, 
Geologist  or  Ishmael  to  win.  Bell's  Life  named  Geol- 
ogist; the  Sporting  Times  named  Ishmael.  The  Impres- 
sion that  "something  was  wrong"  with  "the  brownskin" 

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had  so  fastened  Itself  upon  the  minds  of  the  sporting 

writers    that   they   could   see    nothing   good 

^^^       In  him.     The  best   "touts"   In  the  kingdom 

were  blinded.     Seven  days  before  the  race 

they  "saw  him  gallop  with  Mistake  and  felt  satisfied 

that  the  older  horse  could  settle  the  young  one."     The 

next  day  he  galloped  i  J4  niUes  with  Seneca  and  Passaic 

and  "the  latter  pulled  over  him  all  the  way."     They 

added,  "He  had  to  be  ridden  hard  to  keep  near  Passaic 

and  pulled  up  much  distressed."     On  the  morning  of 

the  8th  he  had  "made  his  appearance  with  cloths  on  his 

fore   legs— something  was   radically  wrong  with  the 

Derby  winner." 

Mr.  PIncus  said  nothing,  and  allowed  the  little  panic 

to  proceed.  However,  Mr.  Charles  Bathgate,  who  was 

in  England  at  the  time  managing  Foxhall   and  Mr. 

Keene's  stable,  wrote  us  under  date  of  August  3 1  :  "Our 

friends  in  America  have  not  accorded  PIncus  the  credit 

that  is  due  him,  for  he  really  took  a  lame  horse  from 

the  hands  of  his  predecessor  and  won  the  principal 

event  of  the  year.     The  colt  will  win  the  St.  Leger, 

when  I  hope  you  will  use  the  opportunity  to  accord  him 

his  full  meed  of  praise." 

Iroquois  came  to  the  post  for  the  St.  Leger 

Iroquois        ^  favorite  at  2  to  i,  the  public  "following  the 
Wins  the  ,,      1  m  i  •         r 

St  Leger       n^o^ey,     while  5  to  i  was  quoted  agamst  bt. 

Louis  and  Ishmael ;  1 1  to  i  against  Limestone 

and  Geologist;  and  20  to  i  against  Bal  Gal.     Fifteen 

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started  and  Archer  in  the  "cherry  and  black"  jacket 
"won  easily  by  a  length,"  three  parts  of  a  length  be- 
tween Geologist  and  Lucy  Glitters.  St.  Louis  fourth. 
Time,  3.20%. 

Doncaster,  Sept.  14,  1881.  The  io6th  renewal  of  the  St.  Leger 
Stakes  for  three-year-olds,  at  £25  each;  one  mile,  six  furlongs 
and  132  yards;  232  subs. 

P.  Lorillard's  br.  c.   Iroquois,  by  Leamington-Maggie 
B.  B.  (Archer) i 

F.  Gretton's  br.  c.  Geologist,  by  Sterling  (Cannon)         .    2 

Mr.  Perkins's  br.  f .  Lucy  Glitters,  by  Speculum  ( Snow- 
den)         3 

St.  Louis  (Fordham),  Eusebe,  Ishmael,  Fortissimo,  Limestone, 
Scobell,  Falkirk,  Bal  Gal,  Josyan,  Privateer,  Lord  Chelmsford, 
and  Voluptuary  ran  unplaced. 

That  Archer  was  enabled  to  ride  Iroquois  for  the  St. 
Leger  was  due  to  the  kindness  of  Lord  Falmouth,  who 
had  a  starter  in  Bal  Gal,  but  relinquished  his  claim  on 
Archer.    The  act  was  a  gracious  one,  showing  the  spirit 

of  the  fine  old  English  sportsman,  but 

Lord  Falmouth's  1  ^u        •         1   ^1.       u  ^     a  t 

no  less  so  than  m  a  letter  he  wrote  Mr. 
Letter  on  the  t       -n       1   •         1  •  1     1  1 

St  Leger  1-orillard  m  which  he  took  occasion  to 

say:  "Your  horse  looked  exceedingly 
fresh  and  well.  In  the  preliminary  canter  he  went 
much  the  best  of  the  field,  moving  with  great  freedom 
and  full  of  action.  Indeed,  I  never  saw  him  move  bet- 
ter. The  race  was  run  at  a  good  pace  and  the  moment 
that  Archer  took  his  place,  after  making  the  turn,  it 
was  never  for  an  instant  in  doubt.     Iroquois  won  as 

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easily  as  he  did  the  Prince  of  Wales  Stakes  —  I  should 
say,  with  at  least  lo  lbs.  in  hand." 

After  the  St.  Leger,  it  is  said  Mr.  Pincus  indulged 

Iroquois,  and  October  12  he  started  for  the  Champion 

Stakes,  i^  miles.     Bend  Or,  winner  of  the  Derby  of 

1880,  was  favorite  at  6  to  4  on,  while  it  was 

wed  mg  Q  to  4  against  Iroquois.  Bend  Or  won  by 
three  parts  of  a  length,  Scobell  second, 
Iroquois  third,  with  Buchanan,  Falkirk,  Muriel  and 
Fiddler  unplaced.  Iroquois  had  always  beaten  Scobell 
and  could  not  have  been  at  his  best.  At  all  events,  Mr. 
Griswold  states  in  his  admirable  "Sports  on  Land  and 
Water,"  that  Mr.  Puryear  "told  Mr.  Pincus  after  the 
race  that  the  colt  was  short  of  work,  and  if  he  wanted  to 
win  the  Newmarket  Derby  the  following  day,  he  had 
better  give  him  a  sweating  gallop  at  once.  He  was 
blanketed  and  sent  for  a  spin  behind  the  stand,  much  to 
the  horror  of  the  talent."  It  must  have  benefited  him, 
as  the  next  day  he  won  the  Newmarket  Derby,  i  J/> 
miles,  with  Webb  in  the  saddle,  beating  Ishmael,  Len- 
noxlove  and  Lord  Chelmsford.  Charles  Wood  had 
ridden  him  in  the  Champion  Stakes  the  previous  day. 
Iroquois  retired  winner  of  seven  of  the  nine  races  for 
which  he  started,  one  second  and  one  third,  having  won 
$84,618. 

Iroquois  was  a  rich-colored  brown  with  a  narrow 
blaze  and  left  fore  pastern  white,  a  son  of  Leamington 
from  Maggie  B.  B.  by  Australian  grandam  Madeline 


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by  Boston;  3d  dam  Magnolia  by  Glencoe;  4th  dam  im- 
ported Myrtle  by  Mameluke.  He  was  bred  by  Mr. 
Aristides  Welch,  Chestnut  Hill,  Pa.,  March  27,  1878, 

and   sold   with    Mr.   Welch's   yearlings    in 
escrtpton      jyj^y^  1879,  to  Messrs.  P.  and  G.  L.  Loril- 

lard.  He  was  not  a  large  yearling,  but  grew 
to  good  size  later.  He  had  a  very  high-bred  appear- 
ance when  he  matured,  his  head  as  clean-cut  as  a  cameo, 
wide  between  the  eyes,  small  at  the  muzzle,  large  eyes 
and  broad  nostrils.  His  ears  were  long  and  slim,  and 
he  carried  them  "pricked."  His  most  conspicuous 
point  was  his  beautifully  inclined  shoulder.  He  was 
rather  high  at  the  withers,  and  his  back  "dipped"  a 
trifle,  but  there  was  a  grand  spread  of  quarters  behind 
it.  His  legs  were  not  heavy  in  bone.  His  pasterns 
were  long  and  oblique;  his  feet  of  fair  size,  wide  at  the 
heel  and  the  coronary  band  perfect.  There  was  a 
great  deal  of  finish  to  him  and  he  had  the  look  of  a 
"gentleman"  all  over. 

Gerald  and  Sachem,  the  two-year-olds  which  had 
raced  in  America  during  the  spring,  landed  in  England 

in  August,  with  the  three-year-old  filly 
^    ,  Aranza,  and  September  30  Gerald  started 

for  the  Rous  Memorial.  He  finished  third 
in  a  field  of  six,  the  two  in  front  of  him,  Dutch  Oven 
and  Nellie,  being  among  the  best  of  the  year.  On  Oc- 
tober 10  Gerald  ran  second  for  the  Middle  Park  Plate. 
It  was  a  great  performance  for  a  colt  only  a  few  weeks 

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off  shipboard,  for  the  winner,  Kermesse,  was  the  cham- 
pion two-year-old  of  the  season,  and 
GeraldRuns  Gerald  beat   such  good  ones   as   St. 

Middle  Park  Plate  Marguerite  (winner  of  theOneThou- 
sand  Guineas  the  next  season),  also 
Shotover,  who  won  the  Derby  the  following  spring. 
October  27,  Gerald  walked  over  for  the  Subscription 
Stakes,  and  thus  closed  the  season  of  1881.  What 
with  the  Derby  and  St.  Leger  of  Iroquois,  the  Grand 
Prix  de  Paris,  Cesarewltch,  and  Cambridgeshire  of 
Foxhall,  and  the  triumphs  of  the  American  horses  gen- 
erally, it  has  become  known  as  "the  American  year." 

1882 

After  the  exploits  of  Iroquois  and  the  high  form  of 

Gerald  when  hardly  off  his  "sea  legs,"  Mr.  Lorillard 

had  high  hopes  for  the  season  of  1882  in  England.    He 

thought  that  with  either  Gerald  or  Sachem 

r.^^  ^    .  he   had   an   excellent   chance   to   win   the 

Expectations 

Derby  again,  as  the  best  English  two-year- 
olds  of  the  year  before  had  been  fillies— Kermesse, 
Dutch  Oven,  Nellie,  and  Geheimniss— the  colts  being 
quite  moderate. 

The  season,  however,  was  one  of  mistakes  and  dis- 
appointments. The  filly  Touch  Me  Not  won  the  Bed- 
ford Stakes,  and  Mistake  won  the  Spring  Handicap, 
while  Aranza  managed  to  win  the  Great  Eastern  Rail- 
way Handicap.     The  horses  had  been  taken  up  rather 

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late  in  the  winter,  and  it  is  possible  their  preparation 

was  hurried  to  make  up  for  lost  time.    Then 

r  Iroquois  broke  a  blood-vessel,  and  did  not 

Iroquois  ^ 

start  for  a  race  during  the  entire  year. 
Sachem  never  regained  his  courage  after  the  match  in 
America  with  Onondaga,  while  Gerald  had  become 
very  savage  and  difficult  to  handle. 

Gerald  was  prepared  for  the  Two  Thousand  Guineas, 
and  three  days  before  the  race  was  given  a  trial  with 
Mistake.     In  this  trial  there  was  a  misunderstanding. 

It  was  to  have  ended  with  the  Rowley  Mile, 
.    .L  -r  ■  /     hut  instead  of  pulling  up,  they  went  on  up 

the  hill.  A  heavy  shower  came  up,  making 
the  going  soft,  and  Gerald  finished  quite  distressed. 
The  next  day  he  broke  a  blood-vessel.  He  was 
"scratched,"  and  Sachem  was  started  as  a  forlorn  hope, 
and  ran  unplaced.  As  Gerald's  bleeding  made  him  too 
doubtful,  Sachem  was  prepared  for  the  Derby  instead. 
Both  colts  were  started,  however.  Sachem  finishing 
third  to  Shotover.  Neither  Gerald  nor  Sachem  w^on  a 
race  during  the  year.  Gerald's  bleeding  rendered  it 
impossible  to  get  him  fit,  and  Sachem  had  become  a 
rogue  and  would  not  try. 

"It  was  n't  another  'American  year';  we  had  our 
feathers  badly  plucked,"  said  Mr.  Pincus  when  he  re- 
turned home.  "Some  said  we  lost  our  luck  when  we 
changed  our  quarters.  The  Hermitage  was  a  good 
place,  but  Mr.  Brown's  lease  had  expired  and  we  had 

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to  find  a  new  place.  Laying  aside  all  joking,  Gerald 
became  so  savage  he  was  hard  to  handle.  Sachem  was 
nervous.  Iroquois  broke  a  blood-vessel  just  as  his 
brother  Harold  did  here  In  '79." 

"Iroquois  Is  otherwise  sound?" 

"Well,  he  did  throw  out  a  slight  enlargement  just 

above  his  quarter.    What  It  was  puzzled  even  Barrow, 

the  Newmarket  veterinarian,  but  It  gave  no 

r  '       ,         trouble.     It  was  the  breaking  of  a  blood- 

txpounds  ^ 

vessel  that  compelled  us  to  stop  him." 

"What  were  the  circumstances?" 

"That 's  a  mystery.  When  It  broke  he  was  only  can- 
tering. When  Gerald  broke  his  It  was  after  very  strong 
galloping." 

"How  do  Iroquois  and  Foxhall  compare?" 

"Foxhall's  speed  would  put  him  at  the  top  of  the  tree 
In  any  year,  but  I  think  Iroquois  a  better  stayer  under  a 
strong  pace.  Foxhall  Is  a  great  horse;  his  only  draw- 
back Is  his  small  feet." 

"How  about  Sachem?" 

"Sachem  was  a  bad  color.  He  had  great  speed,  but 
he  had  no  heart  for  a  hard  finish.  He  Is  nervous  and 
worries.  He  was  spoiled  before  he  left  America.  As 
a  two-year-old  he  had  been  highly  tried  and  turned  out, 
the  Idea  being  to  send  him  to  England.  Then  Mr. 
Lorlllard  matched  him  against  Onondaga  for  that  race 
at  Sheepshead  Bay.  He  was  taken  up  In  a  hurry, 
trained  In  a  hurry,  and  not  half  fit  on  the  day  of  the 

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race.  They  tell  me— you  saw  the  race— that  he  gave  It 
up  after  running  a  splitting  half  mile,  and  Barbee  pun- 
ished him  severely.  The  colt  never  forgot  it,  and  has 
been  nervous  ever  since.  The  morning  of  the  Cam- 
bridgeshire   he    was    less    nervous    than 

Sachem  in  the  i        tt      j*  j         ,.  u         i 

^     ,  . ,    ,.        usual.     He  did  not  scour  when  he  was 

Lambriageshire 

brought  out.  You  know  one  of  the  worst 
storms  ever  seen  came  down  after  the  horses  had  gone 
to  the  post,  and  they  were  called  back  and  the  race  post- 
poned. Well,  that  settled  Sachem.  He  had  gone 
through  the  saddling,  the  canter,  and  been  at  the  post 
with  thirty  others,  and  was  all  of  a  tremble.  The  next 
day  the  race  was  run,  and  he  did  well  to  finish  sixth,  as 
he  had  fretted  until  he  was  all  pumped  out." 

With  the  close  of  1882,  Mr.  Pincus  returned  to 
America,  and  Mr.  Lorillard  sent  the  horses  to  be 
trained  by  Tom  Cannon  at  Stockbridge.  The  lot  in- 
cluded Iroquois,  Aranza,  Comanche,  Massasoit,  and 
Touch  Me  Not,  together  with  the  following  yearlings 
which  had  sailed  from  New  York,  October  7,  on  the 
ship  Erin:  Emperor,  Choctaw,  Pontiac,  De  Soto,  Vic- 
trix.  Nirvana  and  Nitocris.  On  the  same  ship  came  the 
mare  Pinafore,  and  the  filly  Parthenia  to  fill  her  en- 
gagement for  the  Epsom  Oaks. 

The  year  was  not  a  brilliant  one.  Aranza  won  the 
Johnstone  Plate.  Iroquois  ran  second  to  Tristan  for 
the  Hardwick  Stakes,  and  won  the  Stockbridge  Cup, 
and  with  Aranza  and  Parthenia  was  shipped  home  to 

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New  York.  His  breaking  a  blood-vessel  made  It  Im- 
possible to  give  him  the  strong  work  he  needed,  as  he 
was  a  "good  doer"  and  put  on  flesh.  With  the  end  of 
the  season,  Mr.  Lorlllard  had  such  horses  as  he  wanted 
brought  home,  sold  the  others,  and  closed  his  campaign 
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CHAPTER  VII 
THE  RANCOCAS  STUD 

The  colt  that  for  a  stallion  is  designed, 
By  sure  presages  shows  his  generous  kind. 
Of  able  body,  sound  in  limb  and  wind, 
Dauntless  at  empty  noises;  lofty  necked. 
Sharp-headed,  barrel-bellied,  broadly  backed. 

Dryden. 

WHILE  Mr.  LorlUard  was  always  a  liberal  pur- 
chaser, he  considered  It  a  greater  honor  to  win 
with  horses  of  his  own  breeding.  Accordingly,  he 
founded  his  Rancocas  stud  at  Jobstown,  Burlington 
County,  N.  J.  In  doing  so,  he  showed  the  true  feel- 
ing of  a  turfman.  Nearly  all  our  Eastern  men,  upon 
embarking  In  the  breeding  of  race-horses,  have  been 
Induced  to  locate  In  Kentucky,  Tennessee,  California, 
or  some  distant  point  where  they  seldom  see  their  stock 
more  than  once  In  a  year,  or  the  produce  until  as  year- 
lings they  are  brought  East  to  be  trained.     This  has 

always  been  the  drawback  to  racing  In  New 
th  B  York  In  that  the  only  genuine  Interest  has 

been  In  the  produce  as  winners  of  races. 
With  their   stock   thousands   of  miles   away,    owners 

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scarcely  know  them  by  sight.  They  know  the  stallions 
and  mares  only  as  producers  of  colts  for  racing.  There 
Is  no  such  Interest  as  British  turfmen  manifest  who  have 
their  stock  constantly  In  sight.  Our  owners  seldom 
know  much  of  breeding,  that  Is  to  say,  of  pedigrees  or 
of  horses,  outside  their  racing  stables. 

Mr.  Lorlllard  saw  the  success  attending  Mr.  Francis 
Morris  at  Westchester,  N.  Y.,  whose  Eclipse  stock 
swept  the  board,  and  that  of  Mr.  Welch,  near  Philadel- 
phia, whose  Leamlngtons  carried  all  before  them.  He 
wanted  his  horses  near  home  In  order  that  they  should 
be  frequently  under  his  own  eye,  for  he  knew  that  they 
would  be  properly  cared  for  then,  and  that  hired  men 
never  take  the  same  care  of  property  as  the  owner. 
What  pleasure  a  man  can  find  In  his  stock  thousands  of 
miles  away  he  could  not  comprehend.  There  was  a 
charm  In  roaming  over  the  farm  among  the  brood- 
mares and  watching  the  growth  of  each  colt  or  filly 
from  the  day  It  was  foaled  to  the  day  it  carried  the 
colors.  When  that  feature  shall  become  common 
among  the  turfmen  of  New  York,  we  shall  have  a 
healthier  racing  Interest  and,  perhaps,  better  horses. 

Mr.  LorlUard's  first  venture  in  thoroughbred  stock 
was  In  1 87 1,  when  he  purchased  In  England,  of  Sir 
Joseph  Hawley,  the  mares  Asterope,  by  Asteroid;  Blue 
Stocking,  by  Thormanby;  GIrasol,  by  Asteroid;  and 
Merry  Wife,  by  Beadsman.  Before  the  dispersal  sale 
of  the  Middle  Park  Stud,  in  July,  1872,  Mr.  Lorlllard 


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proposed  the  formation  of  a  syndicate  to  purchase  the 
stallion  Blair  Athol  and  bring  him  to 
Rl  Athl  "'^  America,  In  which  case  to  stand  him  at 
Dr.  FItzmaurlce's  place  on  Jerome  Ave- 
nue, near  New  York  City,  where  he  would  be  available 
to  all  the  breeders  of  the  vicinity.  But  Blair  Athol  sold 
for  $67,000,  which  was  above  the  price  expected.  Ac- 
cordingly, Mr.  Lorlllard  bought  several  of  the  brood- 
mares. Including  Second  Hand  by  Stockwell,  with  filly 
foal  by  King  John,  for 370 guineas;  MastermanbyKIng 
Tom,  bred  to  Dundee,  for  165  guineas;  Jessie  by  Dun- 
dee, bred  to  Saunterer;  and  Highland  Lassie  by  Blair 
Athol,  bred  to  Gladlateur.  These  were  brought  to 
America  and  to  them  was  added  the  Amerlcan-bredmare 
Coquette  by  Lexington,  purchased  of  General  Buford. 
Thus,  In  1873,  Mr.  Lorlllard  had  gathered  quite  a 
select  stud.  That  year  he  sent  most  of  his  mares  to 
Eclipse,  owned  by  Mr.  Francis  Morris  and  standing  at 
Westchester,  N.  Y.;  Eclipse,  son  of  Orlando,  being  a 
very  popular  sire  through  the  fame  of  his  Alarm,  Nar- 
ragansett.  Ruthless,  Remorseless,  Nemesis,  etc.  He 
also  purchased  the  stallions  Canwell  by  Stockwell,  and 
Bayonet  by  Lexington.  When  Saxon  broke  down, 
Mr.  Lorlllard  bred  to  him,  and  he  alternated  with 
Bayonet  until  1878,  when  he  purchased  In  England 
for  $15,000  the  bay  stallion  Glenlyon  by  Stockwell 
from  Glengowrle  by  Touchstone;  grandam  Glencalrne, 
a  full  sister  to  Glencoe,  and  tracing  back  to  old  Pru- 

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nella,  the  greatest  of  all  English  brood-mares.  Glen- 
lyon  had  sired  Falmouth  in  England,  and  was  thus  a 
tried  horse.  The  season  of  1879  found  Saxon  and 
Glenlyon  the  reigning  monarchs  at  Rancocas.  The 
Saxons  were  much  the  type  of  their  sire, 
whole-colored  browns,  seldom  tall,  but 
stocky.  Hiawasse  and  Gerald  were  his  best  filly  and 
colt,  and  Gerald  was  the  largest  colt  he  ever  sired,  a 
grand  galloper  and  a  very  high-class  colt  all  around. 
Hiawasse  was  small,  but  as  game  a  bit  of  horseflesh  as 
ever  bore  the  cherry  jacket. 

Glenlyon  was  doomed  for  a  short  sojourn  at  Ran- 
cocas. He  served  only  two  seasons  (1879  and  1880) 
and  w^as  only  a  partial  success.     The  best  of  his  get 

were  Battledore  and  Gonfalon.  Moccasin 

The  Glenlyons  .  ,  i    1     •  11  1 

came  mto  the  stud,  bemg  unable  to  stand 

training.  He  was  a  bay  colt  purchased  by  Mr.  Loril- 
lard  in  England  as  a  yearling  in  1875,  and  was  a  son  of 
Macaroni  from  Madame  Straus  by  King  Tom.  With 
limited  chances,  he  sired  a  grand  filly  in  Amazon,  win- 
ner of  the  Vestal  Stakes  of  1882,  also  Disdain,  Vam- 
pire, Cerise,  Gossamer,  etc. 

The  death  of  Glenlyon  in  the  summer  of  1880  found 
Mr.  Lorillard  in  quest  of  another  stallion,  and,  hearing 
that  the  celebrated  French  horse  Mortemer  could  be 
had,  secured  him  for  $25,000.  Mr.  Moon,  represent- 
ing the  Queen's  stud,  had  also  heard,  and  hastened 
across  the  Channel  to  buy  "the  mighty  Frenchman," 

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but  Mr.  Lorlllard  had  anticipated  him.     Mortemer, 
with  Agenoria,  and  her  brother,  the  weanling  Pizarro, 
reached  New  York  November  25,   1880, 
r  j(M  on  the  steamer  Italy,  after  a  voyage  of  fif- 

teen days,  and  began  his  stud  life  in  Amer- 
ica in  1 88 1  with  forty-six  mares  of  which  forty 
produced  foals  in  1882,  which  for  a  stallion  sixteen 
years  of  age  was  considered  a  great  record. 

Mortemer  was  probably  the  best  race-horse  that  was 
ever  imported  to  America.  For  five  seasons  he  raced 
in  France,  Germany  and  England  under  heavy  weights, 
winning  twenty-three  races  and  rounding  out  his  career 
by  winning  the  Ascot  Gold  Cup,  which  in  England  is 
regarded  as  the  great  after-test  of  Derby  winners.  In 
1 87 1  Admiral  Rous  pronounced  him  "by  7  lbs.  the 
best  race-horse  in  Europe,"  and  he  retired  to  the  stud 
sound.  Mortemer  was  a  chestnut,  foaled  in  1865,  ^Y 
Compiegne  from  Comtesse  by  The  Baron  or  Nuncio; 
grandam  Eusebia  by  Emilius.  His  sire  was  by  Fitz 
Gladiator,  son  of  Gladiator,  he  by  Partisan,  whose 
male  line  had  not  been  very  successful  in 
,    Cf  J  recent  years.   But  when  Mortemer  entered 

the  stud  his  success  was  immediate.  He 
sired  Chamant,  winner  of  the  Middle  Park  Plate  and 
Two  Thousand  Guineas;  Verneuil,  winner  of  the  Gold 
Vase,  Ascot  Gold  Cup  and  Alexandra  Plate,  3  miles, 
all  in  one  week;  also  St.  Christophe,  Augusta  and 
Clementina,  all  famous  on  the  course. 

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Mr.  John  Corlett,  writing  In  the  Sporting  Times  re- 
cently, remarks:  "Lord  Coventry  believes  Mortemer 
was  the  best  horse  that  ever  was  foaled,  and  he  was 
supported  In  that  view  by  Admiral  Rous.  A  big,  over- 
grown horse,  he  took  a  long  time  to  ripen,  but  when  he 
won  the  Ascot  Cup  he  was  'a  smasher.'  He  stood  17 
hands  high,  and  was  good  over  any  course,  no  matter 
how  long  or  short.  He  had  the  action  of  a  pony,  and, 
big  as  he  was,  loved  to  hear  his  feet  rattle.     It  was  the 

rain  that  fell  overnight  that  lost  him  the 
M.  Lefevre's  Chester  Cup.  He  was  trying  to  give  three 
T?         ^         stone  to  the  four-year-old  Glenllvat,  and 

was  second.  Congratulating  M.  Lefevre, 
his  owner,  on  a  great  performance  of  Vulcan,  he  meta- 
phorically waved  us  contemptuously  aside  with  'Ah, 
he  Is  nossing— wait  till  you  see  my  Mortemare.' 
We  waited.  It  was  In  a  sweepstakes  on  the  T.  Y.  C. 
that  we  saw  him  and  he  had  to  meet 
l^^^t™  ^ou  NQj.^^j^b  ^^j  Typheos,  two  of  the 
See  my  Mortemare  .  -on 

fastest  horses  or  the  time,     ror  all 

that.  It  was  6  to  4  on  Mortemer,  and  he  won  any- 
how." 

The  first  crop  of  Mortemers  bred  In  America  (In 
1882)  produced  a  sensation,  for  among  them  were 
Wanda,  Chimera,  Cholula,  Exile,  Unrest,  Bahama  and 
Adonis,  winners  of  21  races  In  1884  and  $49,500  In 
stakes.  Wanda  was  the  champion  two-year-old  of  her 
year,  and  champion  three-year-old  filly.     In  1885  Mor- 

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temer  was  third  in  the  list  of  "winning  sires"  with  41 
races  and  $68,680.  After  his  second  season,  Mor- 
temer's  foals  rather  fell  off  In  quality.  For  this  there 
were  several  reasons,  one  being  that  they  followed  their 

sire  in  being  horses  of  great  size  and  slow 

Mortemer  and  ^-^u  -iij^jri. 

A  dM  maturity;  hence,  ill  adapted  tor  two-year- 

old  racing  of  which  Mr.  Lorillard  was 
fond — and  Indulged  his  fondness.  It  spoiled  many  of 
them,  which,  had  they  not  been  rushed,  would  probably 
have  shown  to  greater  advantage  with  age.  The  other 
reason  is  that  Mortemer  was  over-bred,  and  most  of 
the  mares  with  which  he  was  mated  were  Lexington 
mares  and  very  advanced  In  age.  Mortemer  was  no 
longer  a  young  horse.  Many  of  his  mates  were  twenty 
years  old  and  over,  and  these  had  to  be  returned  for 
service  very  often;  in  fact,  one  of  them,  it  Is  on  record, 
returned  eighteen  times  In  one  season! 

Duke  of  Magenta  and  Falsetto  entered  the  stud  In 

1 88 1,  the  former  beginning  well  as  the  sire  of  Young 

Duke,  but,  like  most  of  Lexington's 

1  P^j  ^  sons,   Duke  of  Magenta's  fame  rests 

with  his  exploits  as  a  race-horse  rather 

than  as  a  sire.     Falsetto  began  well  as  the  sire  of  the 

celebrated  filly  Dewdrop,  the  champion  of  1885  and 

1886;  but  before  her  merit  was  known 

c-  Mr.  Lorillard  sold  Falsetto  for  $6000 

as  a  dire 

to  Woodburn.   In  1884  Iroquois  having 
returned  from  England  with  the  prestige  of  a  Derby 

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and  St.  Leger  winner,  he  entered  the  stud  and  made 
three  seasons  at  Rancocas.  Pizarro,  who  had  retired 
after  the  Suburban  of  '84,  entered  the  stud  in  1885. 
Siddartha  by  Pero  Gomez  from  The  Pearl,  and  Kan- 
taka  by  Scottish  Chief  from  Hermit's  dam,  also  had  a 
brief  sojourn  at  Rancocas.  When  Mr.  Lorillard  re- 
sumed breeding  in  1890,  he  imported  Sailor  Prince,  a 
son  of  Albert  Victor  from  Hermita,  which  had  a  repu- 
tation for  speed.  In  1895  he  purchased  of  his  broth- 
er's estate  the  peerless  and  unbeaten  Sensation,  son  of 
Leamington  and  Susan  Beane  by  Lexington,  who  was  a 
decided  success  as  he  not  only  sired  Democrat,  winner 
of  the  Middle  Park  Plate  in  England,  in  which  he  de- 
feated Diamond  Jubilee,  but  was  second 
Sensation  Second      \^  ^-^^  \[^^  Qf  "winning  sires"  of  England 

%.."^.^^  c-  in  1899,  with  a  record  of  20  races  and 

iVtnntng  ^ires  ^  ^ 

$100,190  in  stakes  and  other  races. 
Locohatchee  was  returned  to  the  stud  in  1895,  and 
sired  Caiman,  winner  of  the  Middle  Park  Plate  in 
England.  Pontiac  also  returned  to  Rancocas,  where  he 
was  bred,  and  sired  several  winners. 

"The  fact  that  a  brood-mare  has  produced  one  high- 
class  race-horse  is  a  poor  guarantee  that  she  will  pro- 
duce another,"  said  Mr.  Lorillard  when  he  resumed 
breeding  and  racing  in  1890;  "some  will,  but  the  per- 
centage Is  small.  When  I  collected  my  original  stud,  I 
purchased  the  dams  of  all  the  good  race-horses  at  high 
prices,  but  many  of  them  had  grown  old,  and  some  were 


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barren  year  after  year."  Then  he  proceeded  to  say  that 

in  forming  his  new  stud  he  retained  the  best  young 

mares  from  his  training  stable,  and  those  he  purchased 

were  young,  untried,  and  obtained  at  reasonable  prices. 

Democrat  and  Caiman,  his  two  winners  of  the  Middle 

Park  Plate  in  England,  were  from  mares  of  no  previous 

reputation. 

He  also  had  an  idea  that  a  brood-mare  should  be  bred 

while  young.    "I  noticed,"  he  remarked,  "that  many  of 

the  mares  I  purchased  and  which  had  been  raced  until 

they  were  six  or  seven  years  old,  were  bad 

serya  tons    ^^n^^^^s  when  they  had  foals.     I  noticed,  on 
on  Breeding  •' 

the  other  hand,  mares  that  were  bred  while 

young  were  good  milkers.      I  have  often  thought  it 

would  be  a  good  plan  to  breed  mares  when  they  were 

three  years  old,  and  by  that  means  develop  the  milk 

veins  before  they  had  matured  and  lost  their  flexibility. 

It  might  be  better  to  breed  them  as  two-year-olds  for 

that  purpose,   without   regard   to   the  first   foal— you 

could  n't  expect  much  of  him,  but  it  would  open  up 

the  veins  and  help  the  milking  for  future  foals.     Of 

course,  there  is  the  objection  that  by  doing  this  we 

would  be  unable  to  train  the  filly  and  would  never  know 

whether  she  had  any  racing  qualities.     I  had  rather 

breed  from  a  mare  that  had  raced,  but  we  can't  have 

everything." 

Speaking  of  sales  of  yearlings  as  late  as  1893,  after 

his  return  to  racing,  Mr.  Lorillard  said  he  had  often 

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thought  it  a  good  plan  to  offer  all  he  bred  for  public 
sale. 

"Would  you  not  risk  selling  your  best  and  having  the 
worst  left  on  your  hands?"  we  asked. 

"Not  with  the  large  number  I  breed.  I  shall  soon 
have  more  than  I  can  train,"  he  replied. 
"Then  you  would  give  buyers  the  pick?" 
"I  would;  for  if  I  picked  them  it  would  spoil  the 
sale  of  the  others.  I  am  willing  to  take  my  chance.  The 
more  I  see  of  it,  the  more  I  believe  that  yearlings  are  a 
lottery.  Some  men  are  said  to  be  'good  judges.'  It 's  all 
nonsense.  If  they  select  a  good  one,  it  is  remembered. 
People  forget  how  many  bad  ones  the  same  men  picked. 
Of  course,  if  I  tried  them  before  sale  I  would  put  a 
price  on  the  best  to  protect  myself.  But  if  I  offer  them 
before  trial,  buyers  can  have  them  at  a  stated  price." 
"You  find  it  cheaper  to  breed  than  to  buy?" 
"A  great  deal.  Yearlings  bring  such  prices  now  it 
costs  a  small  fortune  to  buy  many.  I  can  breed  fifty 
at  less  cost  than  I  could  buy  four  or  five  at  the  prices 
they  are  bringing;  and  in  such  a  number  a  man  has  a 
better  chance  of  getting  a  good  one.  Those  I  bred  gen- 
erally satisfied  me  better  than  the  ones  I  purchased  as 
yearlings.  Three  years  ago  I  purchased  $75,000  worth 
at  sales  and  they  all  proved  bad,  while  the  few  I  bred 
myself  did  very  well.  Horses  bred  in  a  private  stud, 
particularly  when  the  owner  is  around  and  sees  them 
often,  are  better  than  those  bred  for  sale.     In  England 

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there  Is  n't  one  good  horse  in  fifty  bred  by  the  sale 
studs.  The  good  ones  are  bred  in  the  private  studs, 
some  of  them  very  small  studs." 

"When  you  retired  from  racing  in  1886  you  had  just 
begun  breeding  good  ones." 

"Oh,  yes.  I  suppose  I  made  a  mistake  selling  the 
breeding  stock.  Just  recall  how  many  good  ones  I  had 
bred— Dewdrop,  Wanda,  Exile,  Flirt,  Sleipner,  Sirocco, 
Cholula,  Chimera,  Quito,  Savanac,  Hiawasse,  Pontiac, 
Gerald  and  I  don't  know  how  many  more.  Of  course, 
most  of  my  mares  were  old,  but  I  would  have  soon  had 
a  crop  of  younger  ones.  I  notice  Lord  Falmouth  never 
raced  his  fillies  after  they  were  three  years  old,  but  bred 
them,  and  hereafter  I  shall  observe  that  policy." 


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CHAPTER  VIII 
RACING,   1879-1882 

There  's  good  old  Parole — 

How  often  he  stole 
To  the  front,  like  the  flight  of  an  arrow ; 

Little  Saxon,  the  brown, 
And  those  bays  of  renown — 

Uncas,  Basil,  Attila,  Pizarro. 
Wanda,  chestnut  bright; 

Pontiac,  black  as  night; 
And  Iroquois,  brown  as  a  berry; 

And  Dewdrop,  brown-bay. 
Have  all  shown  the  way 

With  the  Lorillard  jacket  of  "Cherry." 

1879 

MR.  LORILLARD,  with  the  pick  of  his  stable  in 
England,  did  not  play  as  prominent  a  part  In 
the  racing  of  1879  as  he  had  In  previous  years.  It  was 
not  until  the  middle  of  July  that  he  even  won  a  race. 
Zoo  Zoo,  Boardman  and  Spartan  had  lost  form.  Paw- 
nee, the  three-year-old  brother  of  Parole,  had  a  sick- 
ness and  never  was  the  same  colt,  and  The  Squaw,  a 
sister  to  Enquirer,  could  not  be  trained.  Mr.  Brown, 
the  trainer,  had  been  sent  to  England  with  Parole,  and 
Mr.  Charles  LIttlefield  trained  the  horses  for  a  time 


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and  was  succeeded  by  Jacob  PIncus.  But  Mr.  Lorillard 
was  ever  on  the  lookout  for  "recruits"  and  purchased 
Wallenstein  and  Mistake,  both  colts  by  Waverly  and 
both  had  won  races  in  the  West.  He  also  purchased 
Sly  Dance,  a  winner  of  three  stakes  in  the  West,  for 
$10,000.  Wallenstein  won  for  the  stable  at  Jerome 
Park  some  overnight  events. 

The  season  of  1879  was  memorable  for  the  appear- 
ance of  Mr.  James  R.  Keene  as  a  turfman,  with  the 
famous  Spendthrift,  a  colt  which  had  won  the  Belmont, 
Lorillard  and  Jersey  Derby  in  such  style  that  he  ap- 
peared to  hold  all  the  events  of  the  season 

c  j.L  n  safe.  When  he  had  won  the  sensational 
Spendthrift 

race  for  the  Lorillard  Stakes  some  of  the 
Western  men  said,  "Falsetto  will  clip  his  wings  when 
they  meet."  They  met  for  the  Travers  Stakes  at  Sara- 
toga. Spendthrift  was  a  great  favorite,  but  Falsetto, 
ridden  by 

The  rugged  Murphy,  "he  whose  sable  arms, 
Black  as  his  purpose,  did  the  night  resemble 
When  he  lay  couched  in  the  ominous  horse," 

defeated  Spendthrift  by  two  lengths  and  won.  The 
excuse  made  for  Spendthrift  was  sore  feet,  but  when 
they  met  for  the  Kenner  Stakes,  three  weeks  later.  Fal- 
setto again  proved  "the  ominous  horse"  upon  whose 
back  Isaac  Murphy  was  "couched,"  for  he  again  de- 
feated Spendthrift  and  was  acclaimed  "the  colt  of  the 

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year."  Falsetto's  action,  when  extended,  was  the  ideal 
of  animal  mechanism,  as  regular  as  the  piston-rod  of 
an  engine  and  as  resistless  as  fate.  The  halo  of  victory 
seemed  to  shine  about  him  as  he  galloped  low-headed 

and  with   frictlonless  bounds  that  marked 

Purchase  of      ,  •  ^i  i  ^      •    '  i.  c 

p.  I  ^  him  among  the  300  horses  trammg  at  Sara- 
toga. He  won  the  heart  of  Mr.  Lorlllard, 
who  secured  him  for  $18,000,  and  he  was  shipped  to 
England  with  Sly  Dance,  Mistake  and  Wallensteln.  In 
a  trial  at  Newmarket,  he  was  said  to  have  given  Parole 
12  lbs.,  but  he  proved  one  of  Mr.  Lorlllard's  dearest 
bargains,  for  he  broke  down  before  Mr.  Brown  could 
bring  him  to  the  post  and  came  home  with  Parole  the 
next  year. 

In  two-year-olds  the  stable  was  very  badly  off.  Ethel 
by  Saxon  from  Second  Hand  by  Stockwell  was  the  best 
and  ran  second  to  Sensation  for  the  Juvenile.  But 
Sensation  was  in  a  class  by  himself.  He  never  was 
beaten  and  ranks  among  the  greatest  two-year-olds  In 
the  history  of  American  racing.  To  give  an  Idea  of  the 
estimate  In  which  Sensation  was  held,  the  following 
allotment  of  weights  for  the  Manhattan  Handicap  of 
1 88  I  will  serve  best: 


Sensation  (4)      . 

.    122  lbs. 

Victim,  aged 

.    116  lbs. 

Parole,  aged 

.    120    '' 

Sly  Dance  (4)    . 

.    112    " 

Hindoo  (3)  . 

.    120    " 

Girofle  (4)    .      . 

.    112    '* 

Crickmore  (3)    . 

.    119    '' 

Eole  (3)        .      . 

.    107    " 

Uncas  (5)     .      . 

.    116    " 

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1880 

The  season  of  1880  proved  quite  an  Improvement  over 
1879  for  the  Lorlllard  stable.  Uncas,  despite  his  er- 
ratic temper,  ran  kindly  when  he  had  the  rail  at  his  side, 
which  he  had  seemed  to  miss  while  In  England.  He 
began  with  a  brilliant  victory  for  the  Westchester  Cup, 
winning  also  the  Grand  National  Handl- 
TT.     jr  cap.     Duke  of  Montrose  won  at  Coney 

Island,  while  the  two-year-old  Barrett 
won  the  August  and  Criterion,  beating  the  renowned 
filly  Splnaway.  Barrett  was  an  enormous  colt  by 
Bonnie  Scotland,  plain  but  muscular,  with  great  depth 
of  heart  and  back  ribs  and  quarters  as  massive  as  a 
steer's.  His  defeats  of  Splnaway  gave  him  great  pres- 
tige, and  Mr.  Lorlllard  dispatched  him  to 
^        rr  England  with  an  eye  to  the  Derby  of  '81 ; 

but  he  was  palpably  a  non-stayer.  Toward 
the  close  of  the  year  Parole  was  brought  home  from 
England,  and  when  he  appeared  at  Jerome  Park  re- 
ceived an  ovation,  his  appearance  recalling  Scott's 

And  next  I  saw  them  saddled,  lead 
Old  Cheviot  forth,  the  earl's  best  steed; 
A  matchless  horse,  though  something  old. 
Swift  in  his  paces,  cool  and  bold. 

The  old  hero  responded  by  winning  all  of  the  four 
races  for  which  he  started.  As  Mr.  Brown  was  unwill- 
ing to  remain  In  England,  Mr.  Lorlllard  sent  Jacob 

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Pincus  to  Newmarket  and  engaged  Anthony  Taylor  to 
train  the  horses  racing  at  home. 

Anthony  Taylor  was  from  the  north  of  England,  a 

brother  of  Alexander  Taylor,  the  well-known  English 

trainer.    Taylor  had  trained  Parmesan  and  other  good 

horses  In  England,  and  came  over  to  train  for  Mr.  M. 

H.  Sanford  In  1867.     He  spoke  In  the 

ony  ay  or  J3i-oadest  Dorlc  of  the  north,  and  was  a 
highly  capable  trainer,  having  trained  for  Mr.  LIttell, 
Mr.  O'Donnell  and  others;  but  his  convivial  habits  pre- 
vented a  long  tenure  to  his  engagements.  There  was  a 
story  that  on  one  occasion  he  stopped  at  the  old  Re- 
formed church  near  Jerome  Park,  and  at  two  o'clock 
in  the  morning  pounded  on  the  door,  insisting  It  was  a 
tavern,  and  finding  no  response  to  his  shouts  of  "Land- 
lord!" ended  by  challenging  the  landlord  "to  come  out- 
side and  have  It  out,"  as  he  would  teach  him  "how  to 
treat  a  gentleman."  It  was  probably  after  one  of  these 
frolics,  when  he  was  inclined  to  sleep  late  of  a  morning 
and  the  head  lad  had  partially  roused  him  from  his 
slumbers,  that  he  gruffly  inquired,  "What  o'clock  b'  it, 
lad?"  "Twenty  to  eight,"  replied  the  boy.  "Put  on 
ten  dollars  for  me,"  muttered  "Tony,"  as  he  rolled 
over  and  fell  asleep. 

1881 

The  season  of  1881  was  one  of  glory  for  the  Lorillard 
stable  in  England,   but  hardly  so   at  home.      It  was 

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marked  at  the  outset  by  the  appearance  of  Gerald  and 
Sachem,  two  colts  of  great  promise.  Gerald  won  at 
Jerome  Park  in  June,  then  he  won  the  Foam  Stakes  at 
Coney  Island,  and  was  shipped  to  England.     He  had 

defeated  Onondaga,  and  as  there  was  some 
^      ,  bantering  after  the  race,  Mr.  Lorillard  said 

he  "had  a  colt  at  home"  he  would  match 
against  Onondaga,  and  the  match  was  made  for  $5000 
a  side.  Mr.  Lorillard  then  named  Sachem.  This  colt 
had  been  highly  tried,  then  turned  out,  the  idea  being 
to  send  him  to  England  for  the  next  year's  Derby.  But, 
the  match  made,  he  was  taken  up,  hastily  prepared,  and 
was  beaten  by  Onondaga.  Showing  enough  speed,  how- 
ever, he  was  sent  with  Gerald  to  England  soon  after. 
Aranza,  a  bay  filly  by  Bonnie  Scotland-Arizona  by 
Lexington,  had  won  about  all  her  races  in  the  West, 

and  Mr.  Lorillard,  ever  on  the  alert  to 
r  A  strengthen  his  stable,  purchased  her  of  Mr. 

Darden  for  $13,000,  and  she  made  her 
Eastern  debut  at  Monmouth  with  Spark  in  the  Loril- 
lard colors.  They  were  favorites  over  the  field,  but  with 
all  her  tremendous  prestige,  Aranza  was  badly  beaten. 
It  was  a  hard  blow  to  her  thousands  of  backers  who 

had  looked  upon  her  chance  as  one  of  the 
j^  ,       "soft"  things  of  the  season,  and  one  of  them 

found  vent  to  his  injured  feelings  in  the 
following  paraphrase  of  Ben  Barnacle's  song  in  the 
operetta  "Billee  Taylor" : 


''CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

The  yarn  that  I  'm  about  to  spin 

Is  all  on  account  of  Aranza; 
I  '11  tell  you  how  I  was  taken  in, 
All  on  account  of  Aranza: 
She  came  out  from  the  West  reckoned  A  No.  i, 
It  was  said  she  could  go  like  a  shot  from  a  gun, 
So  I  went  to  Long  Branch  to  see  the  fun. 
All  on  account  of  Aranza. 

Eleven  starters  were  in  the  race, 

Ten  besides  my  Aranza, 
So  I  backed  P.  Lorillard  for  straight  and  place. 
All  on  account  of  Aranza. 
Some  said  that  the  filly  was  n't  up  to  the  mark. 
If  she  was  she  would  clean  out  all  Monmouth  Park, 
And  that  Lorillard  intended  to  win  with  Spark, 
All  on  account  of  Aranza. 

The  flag  went  down — my  eyes  I  strained, 

All  on  account  of  Aranza, 
To  see  if  the  Lorillard  jacket  gained. 
All  on  account  of  Aranza. 
There  was  blue  and  orange,  and  blue  and  red. 
And  Sportsman  and  Priam  and  Greenland  led. 
With  the  others  a  dozen  lengths  ahead. 
Nearly  last  of  all  came  Aranza. 

I  've  almost  sworn  I  '11  never  bet. 

All  on  account  of  Aranza; 
I  'm  almost  up  to  my  ears  in  debt. 
All  on  account  of  Aranza. 
He  who  follows  the  "public  form"  is  wise, 
A  "line"  from  the  West  is  all  a  surmise, 
I  '11  only  believe  what  I  see  with  my  eyes, 
All  on  account  of  Aranza. 

Aranza  followed  Gerald  and  Sachem  to  England 
soon  after  her  race  at  Monmouth.  Parole  started  24 
times  during  the  season  of  1881,  winning  12  races  and 

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was  placed  In  eight  others,  among  his  winnings  being 
the  Westchester  Cup  and  Manhattan  Handicap ;  and  he 
was  cheered  whenever  he  made  an  appearance.  Bar- 
rett, who  had  failed  so  utterly  in  England,  came  home 
in  August,  and  in  October  won  the  Jerome  Stakes  and 
several  other  races.  Hiawasse,  the  little  brown  daugh- 
ter of  Saxon  and  Vandalite,  defeated  Mr.  George 
Lorillard's  Memento  in  a  match  race  which  grew  out 
of  Mr.  Lorillard's  fondness  for  Saxon,  the  horse  which 
had  first  carried  his  colors  in  1873.  He  had  stood  a  lot 
of  chaffing  from  his  brother  George,  who  often  de- 
clared Saxon  "was  n't  worth  his  oats,"  until  he  offered 
to  match  the  get  of  Saxon  against  anything  in  "Mr. 
George's"  stable. 

During  the  season  Anthony  Taylor  resigned  as  the 
stable's  trainer.  Matt  Byrnes  had  been  head  lad  with 
Pincus  and  later  with  Taylor.  Byrnes  was  offered  the 
post  by  Mr.  Lorillard  on  no  less  than  three  occasions- 
something  like  Cassar  being  offered  the 
y^^^^  crown— but  he  had  declined,  being  appalled 
at  the  responsibility  involved.  Finally,  Mr.  Lorillard 
said,  "You  must  take  it,"  and  Byrnes  began  at  Jerome 
Park  in  October,  winning  four  races  in  one  day,  and  he 
remained  until  Mr.  Lorillard  retired  in  1885. 


In   1882  the  principal  races  won  by  Mr.  Lorillard's 
horses  were  the  Ladies,  Mermaid  and  Monmouth  Oaks 

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by  Hiawasse;  the  Foam  and  Seabrlght  by  Parthenia; 
the  Champagne  by  Breeze;  the  Selling  and  Ocean 
Stakes  by  Barrett;  the  Atlantic,  Red  Bank  and  August 
by  PIzarro;  the  Vestal  by  Amazon;  the  Optional  by 
Disdain;  the  Newark  by  Wyoming;  and  the  Breeders 
by  Battledore.  Parole,  as  usual,  won  his 
tdwasse  g|^^j.g^  eight  races,  although  he  was  nine  years 
old.  Hiawasse,  a  beautiful  brown  filly,  one  of  the  first 
good  ones  Mr.  Lorillard  had  bred,  won  all  the  races  for 
which  she  started.  She  lacked  size  as  a  two-year-old 
and  Anthony  Taylor,  who  trained  her,  advised  Mr. 
Lorillard  to  sell  her,  but  Matt  Byrnes  begged  so  hard 
that  he  refrained,  and  felt  gratified  when  she  swept  all 
the  filly  stakes. 

But  Pizarro  was  the  hope,  the  golden  apple,  of  the 
stable.  A  slashing  whole-colored  bay,  by  Adventurer 
from  Milhner  by  Rataplan,  he  was  purchased  in  Eng- 
land at  the  Rev.  Mr.  King's  sale  in  1880  as  a  weanling 
and  came  over  with  his  sister  Agenoria  and 
^plrthLia^  Mortemer.  Mr.  Lorillard  gave  420  guin- 
eas for  him,  and  he  more  than  won  it  out 
in  his  first  season  and  retired  early,  being  saved  for  his 
three-year-old  engagements.  Parthenia,  a  bay  daugh- 
ter of  Alarm  and  Maiden  (Parole's  dam) ,  was  another 
of  the  stable's  gems.  Like  most  of  Maiden's  foals,  she 
was  angular,  yet  full  of  that  high  quality  which  is  the 
heritage  of  Orlando's  descendants.  Breeze  was  an- 
other daughter  of  Alarm,  from  Blairgowrie  by  Bread- 

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albane,  a  filly  of  great  speed,  but  jady  after  six 
furlongs.  Battledore  was  one  of  the  best  of  the  Glen- 
lyons  and  came  near  being  sold  after  winning  a  selling 
stakes,  but  Mr.  Lorillard's  uncle  happened  to  be  among 
the  bidders,  and  through  a  mistake  in  identity  re- 
marked, "That  's  one  of  the  mares  Pierre  wants  to 
sell,"  which  the  bidder  overhearing,  he  stopped  bid- 
ding, saying,  "If  Lorillard  don't  want  her,  I  don't, 
either." 

Barrett,  after  his  return  from  England,  wintered 
well  and  the  stable  had  great  hopes,  after  he  had  won 
the  Jerome  Stakes,  that  he  would  stay  with  age  better 
on  our  prepared  tracks  than  he  had  on  the  turf 
courses  in  England.  But  Charlie  Shauer,  his 
jockey,  chuckled  when,  during  the  winter,  he  read  in  the 
newspapers  how  he  had  "easily  disposed  of  Spend- 
thrift" at  Jerome  Park,  and  told  his  friends  he  was 
"lucky  to  beat  a  wind-broken  horse  at  a  mile."  It  was 
even  so  —  Barrett  was  a  non-stayer. 

There  was  heavy  betting  at  this  time.    A  "tout"  was 

discovered  at  Rancocas  in  the  person  of  a  household 

servant.     Mr.  Lorillard  had  frequently  found  himself 

forestalled  in  the  betting,  and  was  puzzled  to  know  the 

source.     Whenever  he  had  a   "good  thing,"  he  was 

amazed  to  find  the  "secret"  the  property  of 

,    XT  professional  betting  men;  and  what  added 

to  the  irritation  was  the  feeling  that  it  came 

from  some  person  in  his  employment.    The  matter  was 

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kept  quiet  until  the  frequent  visits  of  one  of  the  ser- 
vants to  Philadelphia  aroused  suspicion.  The  man  was 
discharged,  and  after  that  the  stable  secrets  ceased  to 
find  their  way  to  New  York  and  Philadelphia.  The 
man's  position  in  the  house  had  given  him  opportunities 
to  see  and  hear  a  great  deal,  and  it  was  thought  he  was 
there  for  no  other  purpose. 

The  same  season  at  Monmouth  an  attempt  was  made 

to  ''nobble"  Pizarro.     Byrnes  was  awakened  from  his 

slumbers  by  a  noise  in  Pizarro's  box.     Seizing  a  pistol, 

he  dashed  out  and  at  the  same  moment 

Attempt  to  ,         r  r 

<^ Nobble"  Pizarro       ^^^   ^^^^^   ^^  ^   ^^^  ^^^^   ^^^"  COmmg 
from  the  door  of  the  box  and  making 

off  at  full  speed.  Byrnes  fired  over  his  head,  but  the 
fellow  escaped  in  the  darkness.  Upon  examination  it 
was  found  the  lock  had  been  picked.  It  was  evidently 
an  attempt  to  "nobble"  Pizarro,  as  the  colt  was  a 
starter  for  the  Red  Bank  stakes  the  next  day. 

Edward  Feakes,  who  rode  for  Mr.  Lorillard  in  1881 
and  for  several  years  following,  was  born  at  Cam- 
bridge, England,  in  1856.  He  was  apprenticed  to 
Matthew  Dawson,  and  was  with  Fred  Archer,  riding 
light-weights  in  the  Dawson  stable.  He  came 
to  America  in  1871  for  Mr.  M.  H.  Sanford, 
and  later  rode  for  Mr.  Belmont.  He  rode  Parole  in 
most  of  his  races  after  the  gelding  returned  from  Eng- 
land. A  waiting  race  was  his  forte,  and  as  it  was  also 
Parole's,  the  pair  were  a  great  success.     Feakes  was  a 

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man  above  the  average.  In  later  years  he  became  a 
trainer,  and  finally  settled  In  New  Jersey,  where  he  de- 
veloped a  taste  for  public  affairs  and  was  elected 
Mayor  of  the  town. 


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CHAPTER  IX 
A  VISIT  TO  RANCOCAS 

He  kept  a  stud  of  racers; 

T  was  his  joy  to  see  them  run, 
And  his  sideboard  was  all  covered 

With  the  prizes  they  had  won. 

"/^^UR  foals  this  year  are  the  finest  lot  ever  seen  at 
V^  Rancocas,  and  you  should  come  down,  if  it  were 
only  to  see  the  little  Mortemers,"  said  Mr.  Lorillard 
one  day  during  the  autumn  meeting  at  Jerome  Park.  A 
visit  to  Rancocas  had  always  been  a  source  of  delight, 
and  it  was  not  long  after  that  with  a  light  heart  we  were 
whirling  through  New  Jersey  en  route  to  Jobstown, 
where,  after  two  changes  of  cars,  we  landed.  The  sun 
had  set  ere  we  reached  Trenton  and  the  moon 
had  risen  before  the  train  had  reached  our 
destination.  The  four-in-hand  drag  was  awaiting  us, 
but  the  journey  was  short,  for  in  five  minutes  we  had 
rolled  up  the  broad  drive  to  the  house.  Mr.  Griswold 
was  on  the  veranda  to  meet  us,  and  Mr.  N.  G.  Lorillard 
and  Mr.  Cutting  were  also  "down  from  the  city." 
Pausing  for  a  moment  in  the  hall  to  inspect  a  portrait  of 

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Highland  Lassie  with  a  foal  at  her  foot,  we  pass  into 
the  cosy  library  where  a  wood-fire  burns  and  crackles 
cheerfully.  Horse  portraits  are  plenty.  Mortemer, 
from  the  easel  of  Harry  Stull,  and  Iroquois,  the  work 
of  Harry  Hall,  look  down  from  either  side;  Mortemer 
with  head  aloft  and  flag  outstretched,  as  though  answer- 
ing the  call  of  one  of  the  Belgravian  dames  of  Ran- 
cocas.  Uncas  finds  a  place  on  the  side  panel,  and 
Parole,  in  his  three-year-old  form,  looks 

d  ery  of        \)^q]^  from  the  other  side.  From  the  library 

the    Cracks  .    .  / 

to  the  dining-room,  and  here  Uncas  again 

finds  a  place  over  the  sideboard.  Near  the  fireplace 
Zoo  Zoo  catches  the  eye,  and  Parole's  portrait,  painted 
in  England  and  nearly  five  feet  in  length,  occupies  the 
middle  panel;  and  on  its  broad  frame  are  inscribed  the 
triumphs  of  the  famous  gelding  here  and  in  England; 
while  immediately  below,  Attila's  silver  bowl  forms  a 
pleasant  memento  of  the  "run-off"  of  the  dead-heat  for 
the  Travers  of  1 874. 

In  the  rear  hall  hangs  a  clock,  which,  at  intervals  of 
a  half  hour,  sends  forth  a  cavatina  from  the  bugler 
within,  and  our  host  succeeded  in  palming  the  serenade 
off  upon  us  as  that  of  "an  old  one-legged  soldier,"  until 
our  credulity  proved  too  amusing.  The  hall  is  gar- 
nished with  paintings  of  Glenlyon  by  Mr. 
^1   ,  Scott,  also  of  Moccasin,  and  Saxon  finds  a 

place  near  the  hat-stand  to  remind  Mr. 
Lorillard  of  his  first  winner;  while  Duke  of  Magenta 


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and  Spartan  continue  the  line  of  heroes  of  the  "cherry 
and  black"  jacket.  Dinner  over,  an  adjournment  to 
the  library  is  the  signal  for  a  "horse  talk"  — as  might 
be  expected.  Saxon's  Belmont  down  to  Amazon's  Ves- 
tal are  recounted  now  with  the  doings  of  Zoo  Zoo, 

Basil  and  Pizarro.     Parole's  campaigns 

''Horse  Talk"  r        i,  ,1  -r,,        T    , 

are  rought  over  as  earnestly  as  it  they  had 

been  those  of  Csesar  or  Napoleon.  "The  Colonel"  was 
gravely  eloquent  in  behalf  of  Ten  Broeck,  and  "Pri- 
vateer" did  not  let  an  opportunity  slip  to  get  In  a  good 
word  for  Waxy,  Whalebone,  and  Whisker.  Mr.  Grls- 
wold  Lorillard  expatiated  on  cross-country  riding.  Mr. 
Cool  dwelt  upon  some  of  the  early  events  of  the  stable's 
career,  and  "the  Doctor,"  In  his  measured  and  icily 
regular  way,  explained  Parole's  Ill-starred  venture  for 
the  Kentucky  Derby. 

"Breakfast  will  be  served  at  nine  o'clock,"  were  Mr. 
Griswold's  last  words.  We  had  kept  late  hours,  and 
the  sun  was  shining  when  we  awoke.  All  was  astir  as 
we  peeped  from  our  window  and  viewed  the  spreading 
acres  of  the  estate,  which  sank  with  the  horizon,  in  the 
golden  mist  of  the  October  morning.  Men  were  com- 
ing and  going  and  the  roll  of  wagons  told  that  the  day's 
work  had  begun.     Presently  we  see  a  string  of  eight 

horses  trotting  on  the  training  track.  They 
ay  rea  ^^^  yearlings.     The  sight  is  too  much  for 

a  racing  enthusiast;  we  dress  hastily  and 
are  soon  down  to  where  Matt  Byrnes  stands  smiling 


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and  Feakes  salutes  us  with  a  cheery  "Good  morning." 
Charlie  Shauer,  too,  joins  in  greeting.     The  track  cov- 
ers three  quarters  of  a  mile,  with  easy  turns,  and  here 
it  was  that  Saxon  and  Attila  learned  their 

f.P  f'^V"^^      lessons,   and  Parole   and  Iroquois  were 
at  "School  ^  '  ,     ,    .  7 ,  .    , 

first  put  through  their  paces.  A  big  brown 

two-year-old  is  leading  as  "schoolmaster"  to  a  lot  of 
yearlings,  and  Endymion  brings  up  the  rear.  But  the 
gentlemen  are  on  the  veranda,  and  we  are  reminded 
that  breakfast  is  served. 

One  can  form  little  idea  of  the  magnitude  of  Ran- 

cocas  by  a  casual  glance.    The  farm  covers  1500  acres, 

mostly  meadow  land.     It  Is  slightly  un- 

The  Magnitude     ^^^^^-        ^^  ^  somewhat  sandy  stratum, 

of  the  rartn  .  r^  r    ' 

which  Insures  good  drainage.  Of  its 
stock  operations  It  need  only  be  stated  that  It  consumes 
20,000  bushels  of  oats  per  annum,  and  7000  bushels  of 
carrots.  The  stud  consists  of  eighty  brood- 
^ppt^s  mares,  eight  stallions,  forty-eight  horses  In 
training,  including  yearlings,  and  forty-four  weanlings, 
not  to  speak  of  a  large  number  of  half-breds  and  horses 
for  general  use.  The  cattle  are  exceptionally  fine,  and 
the  sheep  and  Berkshire  pigs  are  strong  in  numbers. 

But  it  Is  not  In  live  stock  alone  that  Rancocas  can 
boast  Its  productions.     The  nurseries  are  among  the 
finest  In  the  land.     Strawberries,   cucum- 
bers, tomatoes,  and  melons  are  to  be  had 
ripe  and  juicy  in  and  out  of  season;  while  the  cellar, 


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constructed  for  the  production  of  mushrooms,  is  quite  a 

model  of  Its  kind.     The  floral  productions  comprise 

roses  of  varied  shade  and  perfume,  and  water-lilies  of 

delicate  hue  peep  out  from  their  hiding-places,  while 

rare  exotics  from  distant  points  of  the  Orient  and  the 

Occident  grow  side  by  side  in  profusion. 

The  training  stable  is  circular  in  shape,  and  within  is 

a  walking  ring  for  winter  work  on  the  straw-bed,  and 

well  sheltered  by  the  boxes  surrounding  it. 
The  Training        ^j^^  ^^^^^^  ^^^  ^^^  ^j^  p^^.^^^  j^^^^^ 

Stable  .  1  11     1  • 

looking  rough  and  ready  as  he  rolls  his 

eye  at  us.    Herbert  follows,  "a  plain  horse  but  a  good 
doer";  Barrett  lays  back  his  ears  in  sullen  disdain,  as 
though  he  overheard  some  remarks  from 
^hefad'''^'      the  company  of  his  being  "a  Derby  disap- 
pointment."     Pizarro,    "the   Lincolnshire 
beauty,"  dances  gaily  in  the  sunlight  as  he  passes,  look- 
ing more  robust  than  when  he  last  bore  the  "cherry" 
jacket.     Gonfalon,  a  burly  brown,  and  little  Nimrod 
jog  along  demurely.     Spartacus  we  hardly  fancy,  but 
Amazon,  a  lovely  filly,  prances  and  dances  with  excess 
of  spirits.     Venetia  follows,  and  then  Dis- 
, '*!.  °^"^    dain.  Inconstant,  Breeze  and  Battledore  come 
along   in   Indian   file,    quite   a   corps   d'elite, 
comprising  winners  of  the  Atlantic,  August,  Red  Bank, 
Optional,  Breeders,  and  Champagne  Stakes.   Hiawasse 
is  enjoying  the  "rest  cure"  in  her  box,  round  as  a  ball, 
and  few  would  recognize  the  winner  of  the  Monmouth 

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Oaks,  Ladles,  and  Mermaid  Stakes  but  for  her  familiar 
Vandal  head  and  long  ears. 

Now  we  have  the  yearlings.  Leo  leads  the  "rising 
generation"  of  Rancocas,  "a  blaze-faced  young  rip," 
with  four  white  feet,  and  covered  with  grey  hairs  that 
proclaim  his  Duke  of  Magenta  paternity. 
ear  trigs  ^.^  dam,  The  Squaw,  was  a  full  sister  to 
Enquirer  and  Mr.  Lorillard  gave  Mrs.  Brown  $1000 
for  him.  A  bay  colt  by  Glenlyon-Minnie  Minor  is 
rather  coarse,  while  Manitoba,  by  Glenlyon,  lacks  stifle 

power.     Young  Duke,  by  Duke  of  Ma- 

Minnie  Minor's  ^       1         ^1  i-  Ji.-i       w  u 

P  ,  genta,  has  the  grey  hairs  and  tail  which 

seem  to  be  the  Duke's  escutcheon.  En- 
dymlon,  purchased  of  Mrs.  Hart  for  $5000,  is  a  Ten 
Broeck  and  a  grand  individual  except  that  he  cuts  In 
below  the  knee,  and  we  turn  to  Tornado,  a  big  colt  by 
Glenlyon,  with  bad  shoulders.  Huron,  a  whole-col- 
ored dark  bay,  by  Saxon  from  Vandalite,  and  a  brother 
of  HIawasse,  is  small,  but  very  neat  and  level.  Then 
follow  Gipsy,  Smilax,  Brilliant,  Blossom,  Zamora, 
Radha  and  Kaskaskia. 

On  a  slight  elevation  facing  the  south  stands  a  huge 
glass  house,  a  crystal  palace  which  but  for  Its  height 
might  be  mistaken  for  a  greenhouse.  It  Is  the  "Play- 
house" In  Rancocasan  vernacular — a 
ay  ouse  ^^^^  ^^  kindergarten,  where  the  wean- 
lings are  turned  out  during  the  winter.  It  Is  not  used 
until  the  frost  sets  in,  but  the  weanlings  had  been  kept 

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in  this  morning  to  afford  us  an  opportunity  for  close 
inspection  before  they  were  turned  loose  In  the  pad- 
dock. This  mammoth  glass  building  is  350  feet  in 
length  by  250  In  width.  The  floor  Is  covered  with  sand 
which  never  freezes  and  allows  the  youngsters  full 
scope  to  play  and  romp  during  the  coldest  days  in  win- 
ter. As  the  door  is  opened  the  sight  is  bewildering. 
Thirty-three  colts  and  fillies  are  at  play,  mostly  Mor- 
temers  and  mostly  chestnuts.  They  were  but  recently 
weaned,  and  the  brown  mare  Hildegarde  was  still  with 
her  foal,  a  brown  filly  foaled  late  in  June. 
ean  trigs  j^  |^  dIfBcult  to  form  an  opinion  in  such  a 
constantly  moving  throng,  but  a  chestnut  colt  from 
Highland  Lassie  was  among  the  most  forward— "an 
early  foal  — Feb.  18,"  we  are  told.  A  chestnut  filly  with 
a  blaze  is  Loulanler's  — 

The  pick  of  the  basket, 
The  belle  of  the  ball; 

she  has  beautifully  laid  shoulders,  deep  flanks,  and  a 
straight  back,  tremendous  hips  and  propelling  power. 
Vandallte's  colt  is  small  and  Hindoo's  dam  has  a  chest- 
nut filly  of  great  quality.  Lizzie  Lucas'  filly  rubs  her 
nose  against  us,  a  whole-colored  chestnut,  and  Ontario's 
colt  is  a  rousing  big  chestnut  with  fine  length.  Fannie 
Ludlow's  colt  is  not  large,  but  neat;  and  one  of  the  few 
bays  In  the  lot  Is  Carrie  Atherton's  filly;  but  If  she  has 
not  Mortemer's  color,   she  has  his  marks.     A  great 

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scamper  ensues  as  they  are  turned  into  their  paddock. 
Lizzie  Berry's  filly  is  a  nice  mover  and  Minnie  Minor's 
filly  with  a  crooked  blaze  gallops  so  lightly  that  she 
"would  n't  break  an  egg."  We  cross  the  fence  to  where 
some  young  Falsetto  and  Duke  of  Magenta  weanlings 
are  huddled  together  under  the  wing  of  a  mare  by 
Bayonet.  A  chestnut  roan  by  the  Duke  from  the  grey 
mare  Felicity  is  promising,  and  Judith,  the  old  steeple- 
chaser, has  thrown  a  chestnut  by  Falsetto,  who  "shows 
his  sire's  action"  as  he  gallops  away  when  they  rattle  a 
hat  at  him. 

Uncas  was  standing  up  to  his  knees  in  straw,  and  "the 
last  of  his  race"  lacks  the  length  of  his  famous  brother 

Wanderer.  Some  have  called  him  "cobby," 
P  1    „         but  he  has  great  depth  of  brisket,  and  girths 

69  inches;  his  arm  at  the  swell  is  18^ 
inches.  Never  a  tall  horse,  he  supplies  that  in  bulk. 
Powhatan,  "the  brother  to  Parole,"  is  taller  than  his 

brother  and  a  heavier  horse.  Moccasin, 
j^       .  the  bay  son  of  Macaroni,  is  a  strapping  big 

one;  he  has  bad  legs,  but  has  done  well  in 

the  stud  as  the  sire  of  Amazon,  Disdain,  and  Vampire. 

Mortemer  was  standing  like  a  statue  in  his  yard. 

There  is  something  impressive  in  the  personnel  of  "the 

mighty  Frenchman."  Massive,  stately  and 
Mortemer       .  •  1      1      i  1  •  1 

imperious,  he  looks  a  king  among  horses,  re- 
calling the  words  Shakespeare  puts  into  the  mouth  of 
the  Dauphin: 

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He  is  the  prince  of  palfreys; 

His  neigh  is  like  the  bidding  of  a  monarch 

And  his  countenance  enforces  homage. 

A  deep  red  chestnut  with  a  narrow,  divided  blaze,  he 
stands  16.2^,  measures  73  Inches  girth;  his  arm  at  the 
swell,  19  Inches;  below  the  knee,  8  Inches.  His  shoul- 
der-blade Is  32  Inches  In  length;  and  from  hip  to  hock 
he  measures  42  inches.  His  off  fore-foot  has  given 
them  some  trouble,  otherwise  he  carries  his  age  well 
and  Is  as  gentle  as  a  dog.  In  his  first  season  here  he 
had  40  foals  from  the  46  mares  with  which  he  was 
mated. 

It  was  some  time  since  we  had  seen  Saxon,  whose 
Belmont  stakes  of  '74  was  the  dawning  of  the  Lorll- 
lardlan  era,  and  there  is  little  to  recall  the  glossy  brown 
that  answered  the  call  of  Barbee's  whip  that  bright 
June  afternoon.  He  stands  15.3,  girths  70^ 
inches,  and  20  Inches  around  the  arm.  He  Is  of 
the  style  of  the  pictures  of  his  kinsman  Blue  Gown; 
not  large,  but  bulky,  plump-quartered  and  short-legged. 
But  Mortemer  has  disturbed  his  domestic  happiness, 
and  he  has  had  few  "mothers  of  the  cherry  jacket" 
since  the  Frenchman  came  to  Rancocas. 

Falsetto    came    out    proudly    arching   his    neck,    as 

though  he  remembered  the  day  at  Saratoga  when  he 

galloped  Spendthrift  to   a   standstill   for  the 

Travers.    The  brown  son  of  Enquirer  has  not 

changed  as  much  as  some  horses  do  when  they  are  out 

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of  training.  He  is  i6.oJ4j  and  as  graceful  as  an  ante- 
lope. He  is  of  a  highly  nervous  organization,  and  we 
have  heard  that  with  much  stud  service  he  refuses  his 
feed.  "Four  white  legs  deny  him,"  runs  the  old  adage. 
"But  he  has  also  a  white  face— that  makes  it  a  'flush,'  " 
answered  one  of  our  party. 

Duke  of  Magenta  came  out  like  a  war  horse  and 
then  began  throwing  up  his  heels  as  he  did  in  training. 
Bramble  saw  those  heels  all  too  often  in  '78.  A  light 
bay,   16.0%,  he  girths  72  inches;  his  limbs  are  very 

large,  the  arm  21  inches,  the  gaskin  24^ 
j^      ^     inches,  which  gives  some  idea  of  the  enormous 

driving  power  he  possessed.  "No  one  ever 
knew  how  good  he  was,"  was  a  common  remark,  as 
none  could  live  with  him ;  and  when  he  went  to  England 
what  a  great  race-horse  Bramble  became  in  '79,  win- 
ning all  the  cups !  He  marks  his  children,  for  if  you  go 
through  the  paddock  and  see  a  bay  plentifully  sprinkled 
with  gray  hairs  you  are  safe  if  you  conclude  it  is  "one 
of  the  Duke's  own." 


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CHAPTER  X 

THE  MOTHERS  OF  THE 
CHERRY  JACKET" 


In  a  paddock,  through  which  it  is  treason  to  pass, 

Well  sheltered  around  from  the  breeze; 
Enriched  with  a  pasture  of  succulent  grass, 

Engirt  with  a  cordon  of  trees, 
A  four-footed  matron,  not  many  years  old, 

Is  strolling,  her  symmetry  rare 
Attracting  attention  from  all  who  behold 

This  bonnie  brown  thoroughbred  mare. 


IT  is  among  the  traditions  of  the  Rancocas  mares 
that  Susan  Ann  made  eighteen  visits  to  Mortemer 
during  one  season,  without  result;  that  Girasol,  the  dam 
of  Saxon,  was  barren  twelve  years  (from  1872  to 
1884)  when  she  produced  a  foal  by  Bulwark; 
^ncocas  ^^^^  Minnie  Minor  carried  Wanda  twelve 
Iraditions  tt-    1  i 

months,  almost  to  a  day;  and  that  Highland 

Lassie  produced  eight  foals,  all  of  which  were  bays  or 

browns   bv   different   sires,    but   never   a 

e    p-ec    oj      Q\YQ^ix\ut  until  mated  with  Mortemer,  to 
Faterntty 

whom  she  produced  nothing  but  chestnut 

foals.     But  enough  of  tradition,  and  the  freaks  of  na- 


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ture!    Let  us  to  the  brood-mare's  paddocks,  where  the 

"mothers  of  the  cherry  and  black"  are  gathered  to 

await  us. 

From  Duke  of  Magenta's  court  to  "the  Lexington 

Paddock"  is  but  a  step  when  expectation  Is  on  tiptoe 

and  Mr.  Riley,  the  obliging  studmaster, 

n  jT"A,       leads  the  way  as  pilot ;  and,  mastering  the 
ton  Paddock  ■'         ^ 

slight  ascent,  we  pass  through  the  gate  to 
the  paddock,   where   a   fine  view  of  the   surrounding 
country  is  had,  and  where  the  daughters  of  old  Lex- 
ington,   to    the    number    of    fifteen,    are 

The  Dams  of  grouped;  and  a  dark  chestnut  of  great 
Hindoo,  Thora        .  ,  ,  ,  •     i      i  i  •  i 

and  Girofle  ^ize  and  beauty,  a  deep-girthed  bay  with 

white  hind  heels,   and  a   small  chestnut 

with  white  legs,  who  moves  off  as  we  approach,  remind 

us  that  the  dams  of  Hindoo,  Thora  and  Girofle  are  all 

companions  now. 

We  should  scarcely  have  recognized  in  the  bay  the 

Susan  Ann  of  other  days,  for,  from  the  gay  filly  of  '70 

which  carried  the  "green  and  orange"  favors  of  Mc- 

Grathlana  in  her  mane,  years  have  transformed  her  into 

quite  a  dowager;  and  those  white  hind  fet- 
SusanAnn  ^^^^  ^^^^^^  Kingfisher  and  Littleton  saw 
and  tlorence  ,  "^ 

to  their   sorrow,   now  touch  the  ground. 

Yet,  as  the  dam  of  Thora,  she  Is  more  celebrated  than 
her  racing  exploits  had  made  her.  Florence's  was  a 
new  face  to  us;  but  the  dam  of  Hindoo  is  a  fine  type 
of  the  thoroughbred  mare.     Ratan,  on  the  other  hand, 

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Is  an  old  acquaintance,  and  we  gaze  In  vain  to  find 
whence  GIrofle  derived  her  size  and  beauty.  Lizzie 
Berry,  the  dam  of  Ingomar  and  Inconstant,  and  Lady 
Wallenstein,  the  dam  of  Wallenstein,  stand  with  their 
heads  together,  as  If  holding  a  whispered  consultation 

—  perhaps  over  Wallensteln's  doings  In  England. 
"That    lengthy    chestnut    Is    Squeez'em,"    says    the 

studmaster  as  he  leads  forward  the  dam  of  Day  Star, 

the  Kentucky  Derby  winner.     "They  are  all  Lexington 

mares  In  this  lot,  except  that  bay  with  a  star  and  such 

black  legs— that  's  Sly  Boots,  the  dam  of  Sachem,"  and 

we  make  out  a  lengthy  mare  of  great  sub- 

e    am  of      stance  as  she  walks  off  to  join  her  half- 
oachem 

sister  Squeez'em  for  a  nibble  of  the  moist 

grass.     "The  brown  one  Is  Nettle  HInde,"  continues 

Mr.    Riley,    "and   that   good-looking  bay  with   three 

white  feet  Is  Nutwood  Maid,  the  dam  of  Bedouin  and 

Battledore.    The  small  bay  with  a  snip  Is  Notre  Dame 

—  she  's  sister  to  Norfolk,  sir,  and  Is  In  foal  to  Mor- 
temer— I  think  all  our  Lexington  mares  are  bred  to 
him.  That  big  chestnut— the  one  behind  Ratan— Is 
China,  dam  of  Comanche,  a  colt  Mr.  Lorlllard  sent  to 
England." 

Across  the  road  which  divides  the  paddocks,  far  In 

one  corner,  two  chestnuts  with  white  legs 

p  .  ,  r^  are  grazing  sociably  together.  Both  are 
Sensation  s  Dam  .  . 

Lexingtons:  the  one  with  a  blaze  face  is 
Glenrose,  "not  a  great  race  mare,  but  full  sister  to  Sen- 

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sation's  dam,"  the  studmaster  explains— and  he  might 
have  added  "to  Acrobat,"  and  that  she  was  from  the 
family  tracing  to  Medoc's  dam,  so  many  great  per- 
formers have  descended  from  It.  The  other  mare  Is 
Evadne,  still  shapely  for  her  years.  Here  also  are  old 
Alice  Ward,  Sallle  and  Letola,  daughters  of  Lexington 
all,  but  age  Is  showing  Its  marks  upon  them. 

Far  out  across  the  spreading  pastures  which,  broken 
only  by  the  black-painted  fences,  rest  against  the  sky- 
line, a  troop  of  mares  can  be  seen  walking 

roop  Of       .^  solid  column,  as  though  going  to  the 
Brood-mares  '     ,  &      t>       & 

post  for  a  race,  as  In  other  days.  To  reach 

them  entails  a  roundabout  journey,  and  climbing  up 
again  beside  Mr.  Cool,  we  are  off  for  a  drive.  Wind- 
ing through  the  broad  roads  past  "The  Woods,"  oppo- 
site which  some  two  hundred  Berkshire 
A  Drive  Through       .  n       •        •     ^u         • 

th  P  dd  ki  pigs  are  wallowmg  m  the  mire;  past  one 

of  the  farm-houses,  where  a  flock  of 
turkeys  set  up  a  furious  gobbling,  we  emerge  upon  a 
spacious  paddock  dotted  with  well-grown  saplings.  A 
winner  of  the  Dixie  stakes  Is  browsing  beneath  them, 
for  the  heavy  forehead  of  the  Vandals,  with  star,  brown 
coat,  and  high  withers.  Is  too  reminiscent 
"At  H  "  ^^  Vandallte  to  be  mistaken.  The  cham- 
pion of  1874  has  changed  less  than  some 
of  her  sister  matrons,  and  already  has  HIawasse  to  her 
credit.  On  we  stroll,  and  are  told  how  Gerald's  dam. 
Girl  of  the  Period,  died  shortly  after  he  was  foaled, 

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and  the  hope  of  the  cherry  jacket  for  the  Epsom  Derby 
of  '82  was  put  to  "wet  nurse"  with  another  mare,  yet 
grew  to  be  "one  of  the  finest  gallopers  that  ever  saw 
light  at  Rancocas." 

We  find  Sly  Dance  pining  in  solitude  In  one  corner, 
but  looking  rough  and  hearty.    The  other  mares  ostra- 
cise her,  as  she  "still  smells  of  the  train- 
y    ance  an       .^^  stable,"  SO  Mr.  Riley  explains.   It  is  a 
large  and  aristocratic  concourse  that  Is 
roaming  through  the  paddock,  for  here  are  two  win- 
ners of  the  Monmouth  Oaks,  and  the  delicate  New- 
minster    head    and    speckled    coronets    are    those    of 
Agenoria,  sister  to  Pizarro  and  mother  of  Pontlac.   In- 
deed, it  is  quite  a  gathering  of  notablll- 

/    A     ^lZ^  ties— "the  mothers  of  the  Gracchi."  A 

the  (jracchi 

commanding  brown-chestnut  is  Ontario 
by  Bonnie  Scotland  and  dam  of  McWhirter.  The  Eng- 
lish mare  Jessie,  admired  for  her  size  and  length,  is  a 
daughter  of  Dundee,  the  gamest  "runner  up"  in  the 
history  of  the  Derby;  but  her  lop-ears  speak 

,  r^'„    loudly  of  Melbourne.     We  are  unable  to 

bourne  tar  ^ 

find  Zoo  Zoo,  but  Lizzie  Lucas  Is  here,  and 
with  the  march  of  time  has  become  almost  snow-white, 
with  scarce  a  trace  of  the  iron-grey  that  defeated  Tom 
Bowling  that  long  ago  day  at  Monmouth  Park.    There 

Is  nothing  that  gives  so  much  "character" 

Lizzie  Lucas       ^     ^1         •  ^  •  r 

to  the  picture  as  a  grey  mare  m  a  group  or 

brood-mares,  and  Lizzie  has  already  "given  hostages  to 

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fortune"  as  the  dam  of  Chimera  and  Cerise,  the  latter 
destined  to  foal  the  "crack"  Morello. 

Matchless  Is  here,   too,   one  of  the   few  surviving 
Stockwell  mares,  and  Gondola,  the  dam  of  Gonfalon, 

carries  her  Falsetto  burden  heavily.  "For 

Matchless  and        r  ..      u      u        r      i    j    •       t 

P     ,,  five  years  past  she  has  toaled  m  Janu- 

ary," whispers  the  Doctor.  Mr.  Riley 
"presents"  (as  the  theatrical  managers  say  of  their 
stars)  Highland  Lassie,  a  lovely  seal-brown  mare  by 
Blair  Athol,  as  "one  of  those  Mr.  Lorlllard  bought 
at  the  Middle  Park  sale  in  England."  The  large  bay, 
whose  legs  show  marks  of  firing,  is  Virginia  by  Not- 
tingham, and  "the  mare  with  a  wart 
-T/»e  Mare  with  ^^^^^  ^^^  -^^  l^  Genista  by  King  Tom," 
a  Wart  Under  tv/t       -r.-i  •  4i-ni 

Her  law"  ^^   ^^^'   -^^^^Y   contmues.         1  he   mare 

with  the  roan  fetlock  (all  her  foals  have 

it)   is  Refreshment  by  Caterer."     The  dapple-coated 

Fannie  Ludlow,  which  we  had  not  seen  for  many  years. 

Is  now  Introduced  as  "the  grandam  of  Foxhall."    Lou- 

lanier  no  longer  shows  the  beautiful  network  of  veins 

she  did  when  In  training,  especially  after 
The  Grandam  ,  ,  n         i  •         i  • 

fFhll  ^    race,    when    her    unusually    thm    skm 

caused  them  to  stand  out  so  prominently; 

while  the  mark  of  the  iron  is  the  most  marked  feature 

of  Aspasia  by  Beadsman,  "one  of  Sir  Joseph  Hawley's 

breeding." 

Dear   old   acquaintances    of   the    days   of   silk   and 

satin!     Explosion  and  Pera,  the  one   famous  as  the 

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dam  of  the  $29,000  Dewdrop,  the  other  as  "a  full  sis- 
ter to  Iroquois,"  are  renewing  old  friendships  and  races 

In  which  they  competed  together  In  training 
P    ,   .         days.    Explosion's  condition  is  "Interesting," 

but  Pera  looks  as  If  the  cheque  would  be  re- 
turned "no  funds."  The  white  face  of  Blue  Stocking, 
daughter  of  the  renowned  Thormanby  and  half  sister 
to  Blue  Gown — "Derby  winners  on  both  sides  the 
house,"  some  one  says— comes  forward  to  be  noticed, 
and  Perfection  also  loiters  about  to  be  patted,  looking 
little  like  "the  maid  lithe-limbed"  who  In  the  Juvenile 
Stakes  a  few  years  before  lowered  the  colors  of  Duke 
of  Magenta,  whose  shrill  neigh  from  his  paddock  be- 
yond, answered  by  Second  Hand,  Implies  her  feelings 
as  honored  by  attentions  she  cannot  fail  to  understand. 
Unable  to  recognize  several  of  the  others,  we  turn 
away,  and,  taking  the  wagon,  speed  over  the  hill  to 
where  The  Banshee  and  Coquette  hold  forth.  Each 
has  an  ample  paddock  by  herself,  as  both  are  blind; 
and,  as  we  approach,  the  roll  of  the  wagon  causes  The 
Banshee  to  raise  her  sightless  eyes  and  turn 

J  ^      ,,       her  head  in  a  listening  attitude,  as  does  the 
and  Coquette         ^  °  ' 

rich-coated  Coquette.  We  had  not  seen 
The  Banshee  since,  as  a  small  boy  on  a  day  memorable 
for  a  hailstorm  of  unusual  violence,  we  saw  her  win  the 
Westchester  Cup  at  Jerome  Park  over  a  "crack"  field; 
and  It  was  pathetic  to  watch  her  now,  so  changed  and 
blind.     The  familiar  white  face— aye,  and  the  "rat- 

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tall"  — are  there;  but  there  Is  little  else  to  recall  the 
heroine  of  the  Travers  Stakes  of  1868. 

But  the  autumn  sun  has  long  since  set,  the  "light 
thickens,"  and  the  belated  "crow  makes  wing  to  the 
rooky  wood,"  as  Macbeth  says,  and  we  end  our  inspec- 
tion with  three  of  Lexington's  oldest  daughters— Carrie 
Atherton,  Nellie  Grey  and  Minnie  Minor,  the  dams  of 
Janet  Norton,  Basil  and  Wanda.    The  Lexingtons  are 

a  long-lived  race,  but  there  is  a  prejudice 
d  N IV  C  against  aged  mares.     When  Pretender 

was  favorite  for  the  English  Derby,  the 
learned  Dr.  Shorthouse  declared  that  no  colt  from 
a  mare  over  twenty  years  old  could  win  a  Derby.  But 
Pretender  did;  and  Minnie  Minor  was  twenty-one  when 
she  foaled  Wanda.  Minnie  Minor  scarce  looked  her 
age  as  she  stood  with  Nellie  Grey  close  by  the  stables 
for  shelter,  with  their  backs  to  the  raw  northeast  wind, 
which  had  sprung  up  and  came  in  gusts  around  the  cor- 
ner; but  time  had  laid  its  hand  heavily  on  Nellie  Grey, 
gaunt  and  shrunken,  her  withers  sharper  than  ever,  and 
her  days  evidently  numbered. 

We  fain  would  linger  in  the  paddocks,  for  It  was 
something  to  have  seen  gathered  together  the  dams  of 
Hindoo,  Thora,  Wanda,  Girofle,  Basil,  Pontiac,  Dew- 
drop,  Chimera,  Hiawasse,  Wallenstein  and  Day  Star, 
reminding  us  of  the  remark  of  the  mother  of  Themls- 
tocles  the  Athenian— her  sons  enrolled  her  in  the  lists 
of  fame.     To  one  whose  favorite  studies  are  the  Stud 

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Book  and  Racing  Calendar,  these  "mothers  of  the 
cherry  jacket"  bring  a  flood  of  pleasant  remuiiscence. 
Jerome  Park  may  become  a  reservoir,  Monmouth  a 
corn-field,  and  Morris  Park  may  yield  to  local  Im- 
provements, while  the  fate  of  Sheepshead  Bay  and 
Gravesend  may  be  trembling  In  the  balance;  but  there 
are  still  some  of  us  who  look  back  fondly  upon  the 
Lorlllard  era  as  a  glorious  memory  when  the  "cherry 
and  black"  banner  was  a  power  on  the  race-course,  and 
upon  Rancocas  as  a  shrine  of  blood-horse  devotion  to 
which  the  racing  enthusiast  turned  his  face  with  almost 
the  veneration  with  which  the  Mussulman  turns  his  to 
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CHAPTER  XI 
THE  RACING  SEASON  OF  1883 

The  blood  in  his  veins  is  the  best  on  both  sides ; 

He  traces  to  Camel  and  Banter. 
He  '11  gallop  them  blind,  and  whatever  betides, 

He  '11  settle  the  lot  in  a  canter. 

PIZARRO  was  again  the  hope  of  the  Lorillard 
stable  In  1883,  and  a  more  perfect  type  of  the 
thoroughbred  race-horse  has  never  appeared  under 
"silk."  In  color  a  rich  bay  with  black  points,  the 
only  marks  about  him  were  a  sprinkling  of  grey  hair 
around  his  flanks  and  loins.  His  head  was  not  on  the 
Roman  model  of  his  grandsire  Rataplan,  for  It  had  all 
the  exquisite  beauty  of  Newmlnster's  without  Its  deli- 
cacy: a  small  but  square  muzzle,  large  nostrils 
which  after  a  gallop  flared  like  the  mouth  of  a 
trumpet,  broad  forehead,  large  eyes,  high  cheeks,  wide 
and  deep  In  the  jowl;  the  whole  set  upon  a  long  but 
muscular  neck,  clean  In  the  throttle,  the  gullet  clearly 
defined.  The  neck  sank  Imperceptibly  Into  long  shoul- 
ders, with  deep  brisket  and  great  length  of  bridle.  He 
had  good  round  ribs,  back  and  loins  as  strong  as  a  bull's, 

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and  fine  long  quarters.  His  forearm  was  large,  his  legs 
broad  and  flat,  with  long  pasterns  and  feet  very  open  at 
the  heel,  as  his  plate  in  our  collection  shows.  His 
breeding  was  very  fashionable,  as  his  dam  was  a  sister 
to  Mandragora,  the  dam  of  Apology,  the  St.  Leger 
winner,  and  to  Mineral,  the  dam  of  Wenlock  and  KIs- 
ber,  the  St.  Leger  and  Derby  winners  of  1872  and 
1876.  It  was  through  his  sire,  son  of  Newminster,  he 
by  Touchstone,  that  he  "traces  to  Camel  and  Banter," 
and  his  death  after  only  three  seasons  in  the  stud  was 
a  distinct  loss  to  the  racing  blood  of  the  country. 

The  meeting  of  Pizarro  and  George  Kinney  for  the 
Withers  stakes  at  Jerome  Park  was  an  event  to  which 

the    racing    world    looked    forward    for 
r,g  months.     All   through  the   winter,   when 

icicles  hung  over  the  stable  doors,  wher- 
ever racing  men  gathered,  whether  in  the  lobbies  of 
the  Broadway  hotels  or  the  warm  little  snuggeries 
of  the  road-houses,  it  had  been  one  of  the  chief  topics 
of  discussion. 

At  that  period  the  Jerome  Park  trainers  were  wont 
to  gather  winter  evenings  at  Jim  Thompson's  on 
Jerome  Avenue,  and  here  we  would  listen  with  pleasure 
as  our  host  recounted  the  triumphs  of  his  old  steeple- 
chase mare  Lobelia.  The  snow  was  deep  outside,  but 
what  cared  we  for  the  cold  blasts  of  wind  that  roared 
and  howled  around  the  corners  of  the  house  without,  as 
we  gathered  round  the  fire,  while  the  kettle  was  singing 

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a  cheerful  winter  tune,  and  Mr.  Bathgate  told  of  Fox- 
hall's  Cambridgeshire!     The  house-dog  lay  dreaming 
on  the  rug,  but  opened  his  eyes  as  John  Hyland  gave 
an  exciting  recital  of  Bonnie  Lizzie's  Con- 

iJV  ^/  gress  Hall  Stakes.  Sutcllffe's  talk  was  of  boy- 
Trainers        °  r     t-»      •  • 

hood    days    in    England,     of    Rosicrucian, 

Marksman,  and  Hermit's  Derby;  -and  Walter  Rollins 
had  a  good  word  for  Gen.  Monroe.  But  soon  the 
great  case  of  George  Kinney  vs.  Pizarro  was  called 
and  "submitted  to  the  jury" ;  and  once  started,  It  be- 
came the  only  topic.  The  merits  of  the  rivals  for  the 
Withers  Stakes  were  discussed  as  if  the  fate  of  the  na- 
tion was  Involved;  but  In  the  end  "the  jury"  always 
"disagreed." 

Fordham  became  quite  a  little  Newmarket  during 
the  Jerome  Park  era.  Many  owners,  trainers,  and 
jockeys  lived  there ;  and  as  they  mixed  freely  with  the 
townspeople,  the  latter  became  saturated  with  the  spirit 
of  racing.  It  was  about  this  time  that  a  stranger,  an 
old  gentleman.  Inquired  of  Mr.  Redding,  the  station 
agent,  if  a  town  election  was  pending.  Upon  being 
told  "not  this  time  of  the  year,"  he  replied  that  during 

the  few  hours  he  had  been  In  Fordham 

Local  Interest  in  1 1   u      u    j  i  j  i  r 

,    „      XT-    r         all  he  had  heard  spoken  ot  was  some 
the  Race  Mistaken  ^ 

for  an  Election  ^ort  of  contest  "between  a  man  named 

George  Kinney  and  another  man  by  the 

name  of  Pizarrlo,  probably  an  Italian";  and  men  were 

"talking  and  betting  over  it  on  every  corner."     When 

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the  station-agent  explained  that  the  Withers  Stakes  was 

the  source  of  all  the  contention,  the  old  gentleman  rolled 

his  eyes  at  the  idea  of  a  "horse  race,"  and  turned  away, 

declaring  men  might  put  their  time  and  money  to  better 

purpose. 

The  spring  had  come,  and  with  it  came  the  bold 

George  Kinney  to  Jerome  Park,  while  from  Rancocas 

each  day  brought  tidings  of  the  great  work  of  Pizarro. 

Jerome  Park,  always  picturesque,  was 
The  Withers  .  j       j   r 

r  oo  never  more  so  than  now;  dandelions  span- 

of  i88^  \ 

gled  the  long  meadow  where  the  bobolinks 
were  warbling;  the  Club-house  "Bluff"  was  a  picture 
of  rock  and  dell,  the  tall  grass  waving  in  the  breeze 
that  swept  from  the  south,  and  the  blossoms  of  the 
cherry  and  the  peach,  the  apple  and  the  violet,  filled 
the  morning  air  with  delicious  perfume. 

No  race  for  the  Withers  had  attracted  so  much  at- 
tention since  1879,  when  Spendthrift  met  Harold.  It 
was  one  of  those  fashionable  assemblages  such  as 
marked  the  early  history  of  Jerome  Park  when 

Fifth  Avenue  sends  out,  in  satins  arrayed, 

Its  Junos  and  Venuses,  matron  and  maid; 
And  from  all  Murray  Hill  (and  the  other  hills,  too) 

Come  eyes  that  are  hazel,  brown,  black,  grey,  and  blue. 

All  sorts  of  rumors  were  current,  one  that  Matt 
Byrnes  had  stolen  out  at  2  o'clock  in  the  morning  and 
given  Pizarro  his  trial  by  moonlight,  under  the  im- 
pression that  Jerome  Park  slept;  but  there  were  several 


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pairs  of  eyes  in  the  stand.    George  Kinney  was  the  first 

to  appear,  heavily  blanketed.  He  did 
A  Trial  in  ^  -i  i.         r   •  j    ^u 

,    A/f     /•  Uf.       ^wo  miles  at  a   rair  pace,   and  then  re- 
turned to  the  ring  near  the  stables.     He 
broke  out  into  a  clear  and  profuse  perspiration  as  Rowe 
anxiously  superintended  his  rubbing.     McLaughlin,  in 

a  new  red  jacket,  seemed  impressed  with 

Pizarro  and  ^.u      •  ^  r  ^u  •  l 

^         J..  the  importance  or  the  occasion,  as  when 

(jieorge  Kinney  ^  _  ' 

Fred  Carter  made  some  jocular  remark 
he  only  made  a  sickly  effort  at  smiling,  and  moved 
away.  Then  Pizarro  was  seen  on  the  far  side.  He, 
too,  was  heavily  clothed,  and  galloped  a  mile.  Then 
Feakes  dismounted  and  walked  to  the  stand.  Up  went 
Feakes  again,  cantered  to  the  head  of  the  stretch  and 
"breezed"  to  the  stand. 

The  action  of  the  two  colts  was  quite  a  contrast. 
Pizarro  moved,  as  he  always  did,  freely  with  a  long 
stride  and  close  to  the  ground.  George  Kinney's  action 
was  about  as  bad  as  could  be  imagined.  It  seemed  la- 
bored, full  of  enormous  effort,  but  luckily  he  had  a 
great  physique  to  sustain  it.  He  galloped  with  a  bent 
knee  and  lifted  high  from  the  ground.  Such  action  is 
a  great  expenditure  of  force.  The  less  a  horse  "lifts" 
the  better.  But  with  all  his  defects  of  galloping,  we 
always  thought  George  Kinney  one  of  the  best  horses 
we  ever  saw.  Nature  had  given  him  a  grand  constitu- 
tion, great  muscular  power,  joined  to  force  of  pro- 
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delicate  horse  could  not  have  sustained.  His  kinsman, 
Luke  Blackburn,  had  similar  defective  action,  but  he 
also  had  the  same  enormous  power  to  counteract  it. 

And  now,  after  months  of  discussion  as  to  their 
merits,  the  rivals  were  at  the  post.  PIzarro  lashed  out 
with  his  heels,  and  at  the  second  attempt  they  were  off. 
McLaughlin  rose  In  his  stirrups  and  gave  Kinney  a 
terrific  cut  with  the  whip,  and  was  three  lengths  to  the 
good  in  an  Instant.  At  the  "Bluff"  Feakes  had  brought 
PIzarro  within  a  length  of  Kinney,  and 
^rge  tnney  ^^  ^^^^  turned  for  home  the  pair  were  on 
even  terms.  Amid  great  cheering,  both 
jockeys  began  whipping.  Head  and  head  they  came. 
Then  Kinney  swerved  a  trifle  and  there  was  a  shout 
"He  's  beaten,"  but  he  drew  away  again  as  Feakes  eased 
PIzarro  when  he  found  he  was  beaten,  and  Kinney  was 
adjudged  eleventh  winner  of  the  Withers. 

"They  '11  have  to  bring  a  better  colt  than  that  from 
England  to  beat  Kinney,"  said  Mr.  Phil  Dwyer. 

"He  was  pretty  close  at  times." 

"Yes,"  replied  Mr.  Dwyer,  "at  the  club-house  and 
on  the  lower  turn.  There  's  a  hill  at  both  places.  Rowe 
told  Jimmy  to  ease  our  colt  there,  and  each  time 
PIzarro  closed  our  colt  always  left  him  again." 

"My  colt  did  not  run  to  his  trial  form,"  said  Mr. 
Lorlllard.  "He  ran  a  faster  trial  and  was  n't  as  tired 
as  he  was  to-day.  He  could  have  made  a  closer  finish, 
but  Feakes  eased  him  when  he  saw  he  could  not  win." 

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^'CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

"I  beat  him,  and  I  did  n't  train  mine  In  the  moon- 
light, either,"  yelled  Jimmy  Rowe,  referring,  of  course, 
to  PIzarro's  trial  In  the  moonlight.  Thus  ended  the 
great  race  for  the  eleventh  Withers,  the  Dwyer  stable 
boys  escorting  their  colt  to  his  stable  In  triumphal  pro- 
cession, tossing  up  hats,  palls,  rubbing-cloths,  and  shout- 
ing like  madmen. 

When  the  bell  rang  for  the  Belmont  Stakes,  Pizarro 
did  not  respond,  and  thus  George  Kinney  won  the 
"double  event."  Pizarro  had  his  revenge  In  the  Ocean 
Stakes  at  Monmouth  when  he  defeated  George  Kinney 
by  a  length  amid  a  scene  of  wild  excitement,  the  Loril- 

lard  stable  boys  throwing  up  their  hats, 

Pizarro  Defeats         i         •  j  .  u'l     d*  ' 

^.  -'  cheermg  and  screammg,  while  rizarro  s 

negro  rubber  grabbed  hold  of  the  colt's 

tall  and  whooped  like  a  Sioux  Indian.    Charlie  Shauer, 

PIzarro's  jockey,  smiled  when  asked  If  he  had  any 

trouble  winning. 

"Trouble?  How?"  he  returned  with  true  German 
stolidity. 

"In  running  Kinney  down." 

"No;  my  colt  had  the  most  speed,  but  he  could  n't 
have  stood  another  quarter." 

Victory  could  not  stir  the  stolidity  of  the  jockey. 
The  Hibernian  fluid  of  the  trainer,  however,  responded 
more  readily  to  the  stimulus.  Byrnes  was  a  very 
happy  man.  "You  want  his  plate?  Well,  sir,  you  shall 
have  It.    I  knew  he  could  beat  Kinney  at  a  mile.    The 

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race  at  Fordham  did  n't  discourage  me.    They  had  the 

laugh  then.    It  's  our  turn  to-day." 

Three  days  later,  for  the  Lorlllard  Stakes,  a  mile  and 

a  half,  Pizarro  was  third  to  George  Kinney;  but  he 

won  the  Eatontown  Stakes,  the  Trenton  Stakes,  and  ten 

races  that  season.    He  was  better  at  a  mile  than  beyond 

it.     Drake  Carter  beat  him  for  the  Om- 

p  1  nibus  Stakes,  but  Carter  had  the  mark  of 

Stakes 

the  whip  on  his  flank.  Yet  Spellman, 
who  rode  him,  said  with  a  smile,  "He  had  as  good  as  a 
walk-over." 

"But  you  had  to  shake  him  up  when  Pizarro  joined 
you  on  the  turn." 

"Yes;  they  had  told  me  such  great  stories  of  Pi- 
zarro's  speed,  I  was  afraid  of  him." 

"He  clung  to  you." 

"I  allowed  him  to  do  that— glad  to  have  company. 
Drake  Carter  is  a  lazy  horse,  and  runs  best  when 
there  's  a  horse  by  his  side.  When  I  saw  Shauer  come 
up  with  Gonfalon,  I  called  out,  'Can't  you  do  any  bet- 
ter?' 'Oh,  yes,'  said  he.  'Go  on,  then,'  said  I,  'my 
horse  is  n't  galloping,'  but  he  could  n't  do  a  bit  more." 

It  was  ever  Mr.  Lorillard's  policy,  if  somebody  had 

a  better  horse  than  his,  to  buy  it,  and  im- 

n^^k^^r^^t         mediately  after  the  race  he  was  seen  in 

consultation  with  Green  Morris.     Then 

they  adjourned  to  the  secretary's  oflUce.     "I  've  sold 

him,"  said  Mr.  Morris  when  he  came  out;  "$17,500. 


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He  's  worth  $20,000,  but  Mr.  Lorillard  wanted  him 
so  badly  I  would  n't  stand  on  a  few  thousands." 

Charles  Shauer,  who  rode  many  races  for  the  stable 
at  this  time,  was  a  German,  born  in  1856.  He  came  to 
America  with  his  parents  at  the  age  of  ten, 
settling  in  Cincinnati.  Unlike  Hayward, 
Feakes  or  Barbee,  he  had  not  learned  his  art  in  a 
skilled  school,  but  was  self-taught.  Indeed,  it  was 
known  that  Shauer  began  with  racing  as  a  stable  cook, 
but  learning  to  ride  horses,  he  forsook 

The  sootj'  yoke  of  kitchen  vassalage, 

and  rode  with  success  the  horse  Jack  Harkaway  for 
Mr.  Beachy  at  the  Ohio  meetings.    He  became  famous 
by  winning  the  Kentucky  Derby  on  Lord  Murphy,  and, 
coming  East,  his  splendid  handling  of  Uncas  for  the 
Grand  National  caused  Mr.  Lorillard  to  engage  him. 
An  event  of  importance  was  the  return  of  Iroquois 
from  England.     On  June  21  he  had  won  the  Stock- 
bridge  Cup.    On  June  27,  with  Aranza  and  Parthenia, 
he  sailed  on  the  ship  Erin  for  New  York,  reaching  here 
July  II,  and  at  once  joined  the  stable  at  Monmouth 
Park,  where   Iroquois  was  exhibited  on  a 
e  urn  0;        ^^^^  ^      ^^  ^^^  public,  "to  let  them  see  what 
Iroquois  to  .  . 

America  ^  Derby  winner  looked  like."    There  was  a 

general  desire  to  see  Iroquois  measure 
strides  with  the  "cracks"  of  his  native  land.  Accord- 
ingly,   a    special,    called   the    Monmouth    Stakes,    i^ 


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miles,  brought  Iroquois,  Monitor,  Eole,  Miss  Wood- 
ford and  George  Kinney  to  the  post.  The  prestige  of 
the  Derby  winner  made  him  favorite  even  against  a 
field  of  such  amazing  quality.  It  was  whispered  that 
he  had  broken  blood-vessels  in  England,  and  in  conse- 
quence Tom  Cannon  had  been  unable  to  give  him 
enough  work  to  enable  him  to  stay  a  distance.  But 
his  prestige  prevailed. 

The  race  resulted  in  George  Kinney  winning,  with 
Eole  second,  Iroquois  third.  Many  blamed  Feakes  for 
making  two  attempts  to  come  through  Instead  of  one, 
but  Feakes  explained:  "I  was  cut  off  by  the  horses 
swinging  wide  after  passing  the  half-mile  post,  and 
again  turning  for  home,  when  I  had  to  pull  out  to  the 
middle  of  the  track.  I  called  to  Hughes  and  to  Hay- 
ward  to  let  me  through,  but  when  they  did  it  was  too 
late." 

Three  days  later  the  race  was  renewed.  Drake 
Carter  accompanied  Iroquois  this  time,  and  again  Iro- 
quois was  favorite.  Drake  Carter  made  pace,  Iroquois 
lying  back,  but  he  ran  a  worse  race  than  before,  as 

Eole  won,  with  George  Kinney  second, 
p.  J,  Monitor  third;  the  Lorillard  pair  unplaced. 

Iroquois  ran  only  once  afterward— third  to 
Miss  Woodford  for  the  Pimlico  Stakes  at  Baltimore. 
It  was  found  Impossible  to  get  him  in  proper  condition 
for  a  distance  race,  owing  to  breaking  blood-vessels, 
and  he  retired  with  the  season. 

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The  principal  events  won  by  the  stable  In  1883  were 

the  Ocean,  Eatontown,  and  Trenton  Stakes  by  PIzarro ; 

the  Palisade  by  Gonfalon;  the  Optional  by  Blossom; 

the  Passaic  by  Breeze;  the  Homebred  by  Huron;  the 

Champagne  and  Arlington  by  Leo ;  the  Washington  by 

Parole,  and  the  Potomac  by  Drake  Carter.     Parole, 

ten  years,  won  seven  races.  Aranza  won  ten  races.  She 

was  not  a  success  In  England.    Like  many  horses  which 

had  begun  life  on  the  prepared  dirt  tracks  in  America, 

she  was  never  at  home  on  the  turf,  but  returned  to 

America  she  regained  her  form.     It  is  true  Parole 

and  Iroquois  raced  well  on  turf  abroad,  but  they  were 

Leamlngtons  and  horses  of  light,  high  action;  while 

Aranza,  like  most  Bonnie  Scotlands,   ran  with  more 

muscular  effort.  The  Bonnie  Scotlands 
Bonnie  Scotlands  ^  •      -r-      1       i         1  m 

f    th  M  d  were  not  a  success  m  England;  while 

in  America,  especially  in  heavy  ground, 

they  were  celebrated,  and  "a  Bonnie  Scotland  In  the 

mud"  became  a  proverb. 

It  was  In  1883  that  Mr.  Lorlllard  conceived  the  Idea 
of  the  Champion  Stallion  Stakes  for  three-year-olds. 
It  was  thrown  open  to  the  race-course  making  the  high- 
est bid.  The  Coney  Island  Club  bid  $6000,  but  the 
Louisville  Club  bid  $10,575.  It  was  won  by  Miss 
Woodford.  Mr.  Lorlllard  then  opened  the  Champion 
Stallion  Stakes  for  1884  to  be  run  at  Monmouth  for 
two-year-olds. 

During  the  season,   Mr.  Lorlllard  offered  Dwyer 


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Brothers  $4000  for  Miss  Woodford  for  breeding  pur- 
poses when  she  was  retired;  but  it  was  refused.  How- 
ever, he  purchased  of  his  brother  the  famous  Spin- 
away,  in  foal  to  Glenmore.  Nimrod  and  Inconstant 
he  gave  to  his  son,  Mr.  Pierre  Lorillard,  Jr.,  who  was 
forming  a  stable.  Barrett  was  sold  to  Mr.  Sands. 
The  stable  during  1883  won  60  races  and  $60,082. 

Breeze  was  a  filly  of  great  speed  and  won  eight 
races,  among  them  the  Passaic  Stakes  at  Monmouth, 
for  which  the  famous  "Father  Bill"  Daly  brought  from 
Brighton  Beach  the  filly  Swift,  which  had  beaten  every- 
thing at  Brighton.  An  immense  following  of  Brighton- 
ites  came  with  him,  and  they  backed  Swift  "off  the 
boards,"  believing  it  the  "good  thing"  of  the  season. 
Breeze  won  by  six  lengths.  It  was  the  introduction  to 
Monmouth  of  the  since  famous  "Snapper"  Garrison 
—  "the  Archer  of  Brighton  Beach,"  as  his  friends  called 
him.  Garrison  rode  Swift,  and  had  announced  that  as 
he  "did  n't  expect  to  ride  at  Monmouth,  he  would  beat 
the  start,  even  if  they  ruled  him  off  for  doing  it."  But 
when  the   flag  fell.   Garrison  and  Swift 

J  ^  were  nearly  left  and  badly  beaten.     The 

ana  Uarrison  ■'  ■'      ^ 

meeting  between  "Father  Bill"  and  the 
jockey  after  the  race  was  a  study  of  "the  human  face 
divine."  Mr.  Daly  was  revolving  something  in  his 
mind  as  he  stood  at  the  head  of  his  devoted  band  of 
Brightonites.  Finally  the  storm  burst. 
"It  's  a  swhate  plum  ye  are." 


"CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

"I  could  n't  help  it,"  pleaded  the  jockey. 

"Cud  n't  help  it?  Shure,  an'  ye  're  not  well  enough 
eddicated  t'  be  ridin'  wud  t'  loikes  o'  t'  aristocrats  down 
here.  Yez  be  well  enough  fur  t'  Beach.  An'  ye  think  ye 
know  't  all.  Was  n't  Oi  after  givin'  ye  instructchuns? 
Did  n't  Oi  tell  ye  t'  git  off  wud  Lorylard's  jock  an'  do 
'im  up  t'  th'  Quane's  taste?  An'  insthead  o'  that  ye  sit 
sthill  wud  yer  oyes  as  big  as  me  chew  fists,  an'  let  'em 
bate  ye  t'  th'  devil  an'  gone,  bad  scran  to  you !" 

"What  's  the  trouble,  Bill;  left  again?"  chimed  in 
Sam  Bryant. 

"Lift,  is  it?  An'  it  's  not  th'  furst  toime.  Was  n't 
Pink  Cuss  [Pincus]  afther  lavin'  Red  Fox  a  Chuse- 
day?  Shure,  a  poor  man  has  no  show.  There  's  alter- 
gither  tew  much  Fifth  Avenoo  an'  Murray's  Hill  here, 
an*  it  's  got  fur  t'  be  reggerlated." 


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CHAPTER  XII 
THE  RACING  SEASON  OF  1884 

What  is  this 
That  rises  like  the  issue  of  a  king, 
And  wears  upon  her  baby-brow  the  round 
And  top  of  sovereignty?  Macbeth,  Act  iv. 

SUBURBAN  DAY,  1884,  marked  the  first  appear- 
ance of  the  get  of  the  imported  horse  Mortemer. 
This  was  none  other  than  the  since  renowned  Wanda, 
daughter  of  old  Minnie  Minor  by  Lexington.    Wanda 
finished  second  to  Florio,  but  a  few  days 
"'^  oj    ^      j^i-gj.  Wanda  won  the  Surf  Stakes,  beating 
thirteen,  including  Florio.     Mr.  Lorillard 
was  immensely  pleased. 

"Minnie  Minor  is  an  old  mare,  but  I  find  she  con- 
tinues to  foal  fast  ones.  She  has  a  yearling  colt,  a  full 
brother  to  Wanda,  and  I  consider  him  the  finest  colt  at 
Rancocas,"  he  observed. 

"Wanda  is  not  quick  at  the  start." 
"Perhaps  not,  but  she  has  the  speed.     She  did  the 
last  furlong  of  her  trial  in  eleven  seconds.     She  and 
Bahama  were  the  most  forward  in  condition.     The 
others  of  my  lot  are  rather  large." 


''CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

"That  was  said  to  be  the  chief  fault  of  the  Morte- 
mers  in  France." 

"So  I  have  heard,"  replied  Mr.  Lorlllard.  "I  have 
several  very  large  ones,  Loulanier's  filly  especially. 
You  can't  do  much  with  such  large  two-year-olds." 

Wanda  was  unplaced  for  the  Hopeful  and  July 
Stakes,  but  she  won  the  Tyro,  with  her  mate  Cholula 
second,  and  it  was  the  same  in  the  race  for  the  Sea- 
bright  stakes,  when  McLaughlin  rode  her.  But  the 
Champion  Stallion  Stakes  was  Wanda's 

,    r^j       .  crowning  achievement.      It  brought  the 

the  Champion  ^  ^  ° 

pick  of  the  country  to  the  post.  Mr. 
Lorillard  started  Wanda  and  Chimera,  but  Mr.  Bald- 
win came  from  Saratoga  with  the  California-bred  trio, 
Mission  Belle,  Volante  and  Verano,  which  had  swept 
all  before  them  in  the  West.  The  Western  men  came 
on  from  Saratoga  in  hundreds  to  back  them.  When 
the  horses  emerged  from  the  maple  grove,  they  were 
certainly  impressive,  led  by  grooms,  followed  by  Isaac 
Murphy,  Blaylock  and  Holloway  in  the  "black  and 
red"  of  Santa  Anita,  and  after  them  a  great  crowd. 

"What  do  you  think  of  them?"  asked  Mr.  Lorillard, 
eyeing  them  closely. 

"Wonderfully  well-grown  lot." 

"Do  you  think  they  '11  beat  me?  You  have  seen  them 
at  Saratoga." 

No ;  we  had  not  seen  them  race. 

"They  are  splendidly  grown  and  developed,"  con- 


'CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

tinned  Mr.  L.,  "but  while  they  are  highly  furnished, 
they  are  not  highly  finished.  You  understand — they 
lack  quality." 

There  were  loud  cheers  when  the  three  Callfornlans 
took  the  lead,  but  on  the  turn  Wanda's  white  face  was 
seen  coming  through,  and  a  cheer  rose  as  she  shot  to 
the  front,  and  coming  away,  won  by  three  lengths. 
Wanda's  return  to  scales  was  the  scene  of  an  uproar 
that  caused  the  filly  to  rear,  and  the  judge  had  to  ask 
the  people  to  suppress  their  cheering.  The  defeat  of 
Mission  Belle  was  a  surprise.  Holloway,  who  rode 
her,  said  she  was  nervous.  Mr.  Baldwin  was  not  satis- 
fied, and  there  was  talk  of  a  match.  Mr.  Lorlllard 
when  approached  said,  "No  proposition  for  a  match 
has  been  made  to  me,  and  as  my  filly  won,  I  could 
hardly  make  one  to  Mr.  Baldwin." 

"It  Is  complained  that  the  Callfornlans  were  badly 
ridden." 

"They  certainly  were  raced  hard  from  the  start." 

"So  Mr.  Baldwin  thinks,  and  says  they  can 
Talk  of  J     1     ^^       n 

"If  he  wants  another  race  I  shall  not  de- 
cline," responded  Mr.  Lorlllard.  "I  am  willing  to 
make  a  match  for  from  $5000  to  $25,000  a  side,  here 
or  at  Sheepshead  Bay." 

Nothing  came  of  the  talk,  and  a  week  later  Goano, 
who  had  run  second  to  Wanda,  beat  her  for  the  Select 
Stakes.     But  Wanda  won  all  her  races  after  that,  the 


"CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

Homebred,  the  Flatbush,  the  Central,  and  the  Electric, 
and  retired  champion  two-year-old  of  the  year. 

In  the  Flatbush  the  card  had  Wanda  carrying  5  lbs. 

penalty  for  "having  won  $2000  since  Aug.  15."  Wanda 

had    won    the    Homebred    Produce.      Mr.    Lorillard 

claimed  she  did  not  incur  a  penalty  as  the  forfeits  due 

by  barren  mares  could  not  be  calculated, 

otn  oj  ^y^^  entry  of  a  barren  mare  being  void. 
Kaang  Ldisu  ^  ^ 

There   had   been    20   barren   mares,    and 

their  forfeits,  if  counted,  would  make  the  race  worth 
$500  more  than  it  actually  was.  Hence  Wanda  was 
allowed  to  start  without  the  penalty. 

Wanda  was  not  alone  in  spreading  the  fame  of  Mor- 
temer.  Chimera,  a  magnificent  filly,  a  dappled  chest- 
nut with  a  star  and  snip,  won  the  Red  Bank  Stakes.  She 
stood  16.1^,  and  it  was  feared  "she  was  too  big,"  and 
after  winning  the  Moet  &  Chandon  was  retired. 
Chimera  was  from  the  grey  mare  Lizzie  Lucas  by 

Australian.  Cholula,  a  chestnut  colt  by 
Ch'ld  Mortemer  from  Fannie  Ludlow  by  Eclipse, 

was  another,  but  of  rather  a  different  type 
from  the  other  Mortemers.  He  was  not  so  large,  but 
more  compact,  with  rather  straight  pasterns.  He  won 
the  Atlantic  Stakes  and  was  a  thoroughly  good  one,  but 
was  used  as  pacemaker  for  Wanda  and  Chimera  much 
too  often,  and  "trained  off."  Exile,  by  Mortemer  from 
Second  Hand  by  Stockwell,  was  one  of  the  few  bays 
Mortemer  sired,  but  was  marked  like  him  — a  star  and 


"CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

stripe  with  near  hind  pastern  white.  He  was  strongly 
made,  with  great  power  in  his  quarters  and  an  exuber- 
ance of  animal  spirits  that  often  made  him  clear  the 
paddock  with  his  heels.  He  won  several  races,  and 
trained  on  for  many  seasons,  winning  the  Brooklyn 
Handicap  of  1889  for  Wm.  Lakeland. 

Unrest,  a  chestnut  by  Mortemer  from  Letola 
by  Lexington,  was  a  fine  filly.  Mr.  Lorillard,  how- 
ever, insisted  that  Dione  was  a  better  one. 

"I  believe  Unrest  can  give  Dione  weight  and  beat 

her,"  said  Matt  Byrnes. 

"You   are   prejudiced,"   replied  Mr. 

rr  ,  L.  Lorillard.  "I  '11  bet  a  hundred  dollars 
Unrest  vs.  Utone 

—no,  I  '11  bet  you  a  hat  (I  don't  want 
to  take  your  money)  that  Unrest  can't  give  Dione  a 
pound." 

"All  right,  sir,"  said  Byrnes,  "I  '11  take  Unrest  to 
give  Dione  12  lbs.,  and  Olney  to  ride  Dione." 

"Very  well,"  answered  Mr.  Lorillard,  "there  's  a 
party  of  friends  coming  here  next  week,  and  we  will 
show  them  a  race." 

The  friends  came.  Olney  was  given  the  Inside  posi- 
tion with  Dione.  The  stable  lad  on  Unrest  was  told  to 
wait.  Dione  led  until  a  furlong  from  home,  and  Mr. 
Lorillard  was  having  a  great  laugh  at  Byrnes,  when 
Unrest  passed  and  beat  Dione  with  ease.  Mr.  Loril- 
lard paid  his  bet,  said  he  "was  mistaken,"  lit  his  cigar 
and  dismissed  the  matter. 


''CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

The  since   famous  Suburban  was  Inaugurated  this 

season,  and  PIzarro  with  124  lbs.  was  the  candidate  of 

the  "cherry  and  black."     In  the  preliminary  canter  he 

cut  up  badly,  lashing  out  with  his  heels,  and  In  the  race 

he  fell  out  of  it  after  going  a  mile.     His  temper  had 

become  bad,  and  a  few  days  after  the  race  he  pulled 

up  lame.    He  had  developed  a  peculiar  lame- 

,•  ness  In  the  shoulder,  and  the  "vets"  said  It 

Lameness  ^  ' 

was  rheumatism.  But  before  his  lameness 
developed  his  spirits  were  so  high  that  he  rebelled  at 
being  ridden,  and  his  Suburban  preparation  was  a 
world  of  trouble.  Finding  that  light  jockeys  could  not 
control  him,  they  engaged  Charlie  Salt,  the  steeple- 
chase jockey,  to  ride  him  at  exercise.  Salt,  who  weighed 
about  160  lbs.,  mastered  him,  but  it  Is  a  question  if  It 
did  not  cause  his  lameness.  As  a  sire,  PIzarro  served 
two  or  three  seasons;  he  got  Pessara,  the  Metropolitan 
winner,  and  Reckon,  one  of  the  best  mares  of  her  day. 
Aranza  won  nine  races  that  season.  Long  after  she 
returned  from  England  she  would  not  try,  except  when 
she  could  lead.  "We  could  n't  win  a  waiting  race  with 
her,"  explained  Mr.  Lorlllard.  "We  tried  It  on  sev- 
eral occasions,  and  she  'd  always  quit." 

"Was  It  the  English  campaign  that 
Aranza  Recovers  j  ,        -s,, 

rj    r.  soured  her  : 

tier  torm 

"That  I  have  no  means  of  know- 
ing," he  answered,  "but  I  believe  she  's  returning  to 
her  form  as  a  three-year-old." 


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"George  Rice,  who  saw  her  In  the  West,  said  she 
was  the  best  three-year-old  filly  he  ever  saw." 

"So  she  was  represented  to  me,"  said  Mr.  Lorillard. 
"When  I  bought  her  she  could  beat  all  my  horses.  They 
say  mares  which  have  lost  their  form  seldom  recover  It, 
but  since  we  learned  how  to  place  this  mare,  she  's  like 
her  old  self." 

Drake  Carter  proved  a  much  better  four  than  a 
three-year-old  to  the  Lorillard  stable.  His  victory  for 
the  Autumn  Cup,  three  miles  in  5.24,  was  so  good  that 
his  match  with  Miss  Woodford  was  the  result,  the 
newspapers  having  clamored  for  such  a  race. 

"Do  you  want  to  run  your  mare  against  Drake  Car- 
ter?" asked  Mr.  Lorillard. 

"If  the  conditions  suited,"  replied  Mr.  Dwyer. 

"Well,  now  I  '11  tell  you,  Dwyer," 
Drake  Carter  and  1    a/t       t       mi      j     u 

A/f    W  df  A         resumed  Mr.  Lorillard,     suppose  we 

make  a  match  to  be  run  next  week — 

your  mare  Is  in  condition,  is  n't  she?" 

"I  think  we  can  get  her  ready,"  replied  Mr.  Dwyer, 
smiling  at  the  Idea. 

"Very  well.  Let  It  be  $5000  a  side,  $1500  forfeit, 
three  miles  or  two  and  a  half." 

"Make  it  two  and  a  half." 

"All right.  Mr.Lawrencewilldrawupthe  conditions." 

Thus  the  match  was  made;  but  despite  the  fact  that 
Drake  Carter  did  the  best  trial,  the  mare  won  easily 
and  repeated  It  In  two  mile  heats  a  few  days  later. 


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The  Lorillard  yearlings  usually  had  as  thorough 
"competitive  examinations"  for  racing  as  the  civil  ser- 
vice is  supposed  to  require.  Their  trials  this  season 
occurred  during  the  Coney  Island  autumn  meeting,  and 
caused  a  regular  hegira  of  jockeys  to  the  New  Jersey 
farm.  In  fact,  several  owners  during  the 
Y^l  ^  meeting  were  compelled  to  "scratch"  their 
horses  for  want  of  light-weight  jockeys, 
most  of  whom,  it  was  reported  on  inquiry,  had  "gone  to 
Rancocas  to  ride  in  Lorillard's  trials."  Mr.  Lorillard 
was  so  well  pleased  with  the  trials  of  his  Mortemer 
yearlings  that  he  said  he  would  be  willing  to  make 
another  campaign  in  England  If  he  could  obtain  com- 
petent jockeys.  He  offered  Rowe  and  McLaughlin 
$15,000  each  per  annum,  with  the  option  of  sending 
them  to  England;  but  the  trainer  and  jockey,  after 
consulting  with  the  Dwyers,  declined  to  secede  from 
their  allegiance  to  the  "red  and  blue,"  and  Mr.  Loril- 
lard remarked  afterward,  "I  'd  have  saved  money  if 
I  'd  given  them  $50,000." 

Harris  Olney,  who  rode  so  many  races  for  the  Loril- 
lard stable,  was  born  at  Manchester,  Iowa,  in  1865, 
and  learned  riding  under  Jacob  PIncus.     He 

^  rode  his  first  race  for  Hon.  Perry  Belmont  on 
Ada,  82  lbs.,  in  1880,  and  came  to  Mr.  Lorillard  in 
1881.  In  1882  he  won  6  out  of  35  races;  and  in  1883 
he  won  17  out  of  68.  His  light  weight  gave  him  plenty 
to  do  in  the  stable  riding  exercise,  trials  and  races. 

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In  the  course  of  the  season  of  1884,  Mr.  Lorlllard 
took  his  son  Mr.  N.  G.  Lorlllard  as  a  partner  in  order 
to  protect  his  stake  engagements  from  being  void  in  the 
event  of  his  death,  as  under  racing  rules  "rights  and 
liabilities  attach  to  the  survivor."  During  the  season 
the  stable  started  in  181  races  and  won  39,  with  38 
seconds,  was  25  times  third,  and  the  winnings  amounted 
to  $84,202.  The  progeny  of  Mortemer  won  21  races, 
and  $49,500  in  stakes  and  purses. 

William  Hayward,  while  never  under  contract  to 
Mr.  Lorillard,  frequently  rode  for  him,  and  was  prob- 
ably the  most  artistic  jockey  that  has  ever  appeared  in 
this  country.  He  was  born  at  Northampton,  England, 
In  1844,  and  first  attracted  attention  as  a  jockey  In  Mr. 
Merry's  stable  by  winning  the  Stand  Plate  at  Ascot  on 
Buckstone  in  1861,  when  he  rode  at  89  lbs.  He  came 
to  America  for  the  late  Mr.  M.  H.  Sanford  in  1867, 
and  his  superb  finish  when  he  won  the  Westchester  Cup 
of  that  year  on  Loadstone,  beating  Charles 
TT  1     Littlefield  on  Onward  by  a  neck,  created  a 

sensation.  It  was  the  first  time  the  art  of 
"niggling"  was  shown  In  America,  where  It  became 
known  as  the  "Newmarket  roll."  His  finish  winning  the 
Saratoga  Cup  of  1868  on  Lancaster  was  another  con- 
spicuous demonstration  of  his  ability,  as  was  his  West- 
chester Cup  of  1 87 1,  when  he  won  with  Preakness, 
beating  Glenelg  and  Helmbold.  He  acquired  a  name 
for  a  "waiting  race"  and  bringing  a  horse  home  by  a 

n"8n 


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rush  in  the  stretch,  but  in  1872  he  showed  he  could  "ride 
in  front"  when  in  the  desperate  race  for  the  Maturity 
Stakes  he  won  with  Monarchist  over  Harry  Bassett. 
His  last  great  victory  was  in  1892,  when  he  won  the 
Futurity  on  Morello.  While  a  most  brilliant  man  in 
the  saddle,  he  was  the  most  careless  on  the  ground.  He 
had  no  ambition  to  push  his  claims.  He  had  no  valet, 
but  appeared  at  the  scale  with  his  saddle  on  his  arm. 
Few  ever  heard  him  use  a  rough  expression.  He  was 
always  modest,  respectful  and  cautious  in  his  comments. 
During  the  thirty  years  he  rode  races  he  won  more  of 
the  principal  events  than  any  man  of  his  generation, 
and  retained  the  respect  and  confidence  of  his  employ- 
ers no  less  than  their  admiration  for  his  ability  as  a 
jockey.  His  "set  to"  was  very  wide,  with  more  move- 
ment of  the  body  than  is  usual  with  jockeys,  and  in 
bringing  a  tired  horse  home  he  had  no  superior,  as  he 
showed  in  the  dead  heat  between  Springbok  and  Preak- 
ness  for  the  Saratoga  Cup  of  1875,  when,  as  he  said,  "I 
eased  my  horse  a  quarter  of  a  mile  from  home  to  let 
him  get  his  wind,  and  it  was  all  that  saved  him." 


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CHAPTER  XIII 
THE  RACING  SEASON  OF  1885 

And  'mid  the  flash  of  silks  we  scan 
A  "cherry"  jacket  in  the  van — 

Hurrah!  for  the  bold  brown  mare! 

Sir  Francis  Doyle. 

DEWDROP  was  a  star  of  the  first  magnitude  in 
the  constellation  of  two-year-olds  carrying  the 
"cherry  and  black"  jacket  during  the  season  of  1885. 
A  brown  filly  by  Falsetto  from  Explosion  by  Hampton 
Court,  marked  with  a  blaze  and  near  fore 
^  ^^^  and  both  hind  legs  white  nearly  to  her  hocks, 
Falsetto  could  not  have  denied  her.  Nor,  for  that 
matter,  could  Explosion.  She  was  marked  like  both 
parents.  But  Dewdrop  had  the  Falsetto  action,  long 
and  low,  with  her  head  down— quite  in  contrast  with 
her  companion  Wanda,  who  galloped  high,  flitting  over 
the  ground  like  a  sylph.  Wanda  was  the  hardier  filly, 
Dewdrop  rather  delicate.  Wanda  had  the  greater 
burst  of  speed;  Dewdrop's  action  indicated  greater  ca- 
pacity for  a  distance.  Dewdrop's  nervousness  cost  her 
a  race  at  the  outset,  she  being  left  at  the  post.    Charity 

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beat  her  for  the  Flatbush,  but  Dewdrop  was  conceding 
her  10  lbs.  For  the  Great  Eastern,  Dew- 
ew  r^i  drop   galloped   away   and  won   by   four 

lengths  from  a  field  of  twenty,  including 
Inspector  B.,  Elkwood  and  Charity.  She  won  the 
Nursery,  beating  Biggonet  and  Charity,  and  the  Cham- 
pagne, beating  Inspector  B.  in  a  canter.  She  was  clearly 
champion  of  the  year. 

"Do  you  recall  what  I  told  you  some  time  since?" 
asked  Mr.  Lorillard. 

We  failed  to  remember. 

"Oh,  you  can't  be  so  forgetful,"  he  continued.  "I 
said  I  had  four  two-year-olds,  all  of  them  first-class, 
that  had  never  shown  in  pubHc  how  good  they  were, 
because  they  had  been  sick,  off  and  on,  ever  since 
spring.  This  filly  is  one  of  them  (never  mind  about 
the  others— you  can  guess) .  She  was  one  of  the  last  to 
take  the  epidemic  at  Coney  Island  in  June,  and  was 
out  of  condition  all  the  summer,  or  I  would  have  had 
her  out  at  Monmouth." 

"But  she  showed  great  form  for  the  Great  Eastern." 

"She  was  recovering.  She  should  have  won  the  Adieu 
Stakes,  but  Rawlinson  was  new  in  America  and  the 
jockeys  rode  all  around  him." 

"Then  you  consider  her  better  now  than  in  the  Great 
Eastern?" 

"Decidedly;  in  her  trial  she  won  pulled  double  from 
horses  that  a  month  ago  gave  her  all  she  could  do.*' 


"CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

"Many  of  the  horsemen  consider  her  better  than 
any  of  the  Mortemers." 

"Yes,"  returned  Mr.  Lorlllard,  "I  know  there  's  a 

prejudice  against  the  Mortemers.    Somebody  will  have 

to  pay  for  that  yet.  There  was  just  such 
A  Chat  about  •    j.  •      i.     ^.u       t  •      i. 

Dewdrop  ^    prejudice    agamst    the    Leammgtons 

years  ago.  But  I  am  glad  they  like  Dew- 
drop,  for  It  will  help  the  sale  of  Mr.  Alexander's  Fal- 
setto colts.  You  know  I  sold  Falsetto  to  him  before 
Dewdrop  was  foaled." 

"Dewdrop's  markings  are  almost  an  exact  reproduc- 
tion of  Falsetto's." 

"I  think  they  are;  but  her  dam  Explosion  has  this 
season  foaled  a  brown  filly  marked  the  same  as  Dew- 
drop,  and  It  Is  by  Mortemer.  Explosion  was  a  speedy 
mare,  but  had  small  'cuppy'  feet.  I  purchased  her  at 
Mr.  Bernard's  sale  for  only  $250,  and  everything  she 
has  foaled  has  won  races.  But  about  the  Mortemers: 
I  have  a  lot  of  them,  and  If  any  one  thinks  he  can  beat 
them,  I  will  match  my  stable  against  any  for  two-year- 
olds  next  season,  to  name  at  the  post,  $5000  a  side. 
Or,  I  win  name  a  yearling  now  against  any  In  the 
country." 

Wanda  was  Mr.  Lorlllard's  principal  winner  In 
1885  — four  races  and  $29,640  being  her  share.  She 
began  badly,  unplaced  for  the  Swift  Stakes,  and  was 
second  to  Miss  Woodford  for  the  Coney  Island  Stakes. 
She  had  an  easy  victory  for  the  Mermaid,  but  her  sue- 


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cess  for  the  LorlUard  Stakes,  value  $18,530,  was  when 
she  was  at  her  best,  beating  Pardee,  Tyrant,  Bersan, 

Ten  Stone,  Brookwood  and  others.    The 

Wanda  IVins  •         ^i_*  1    r  j 

,    J    ...    ,        race  was  run  in  a  thick  tog,  and  was  one 

of  the  heaviest  betting  races  of  the  year. 
The  Philadelphia  contingent  backed  Brookwood.  Ber- 
san, fresh  from  his  Kentucky  triumphs,  had  a  large 
Western  following.  Mr.  Lorlllard  had  a  good  bet  on 
Wanda.  The  Californlans  were  on  Mr.  Haggln's 
Tyrant.  Mr.  Bernard  must  have  thought  highly  of 
Goano,  as  he  offered  McLaughlin  $1000  If  he  could 
win  with  him. 

In  the  race.  Tyrant  ran  with  the  same  easy  lope  he 
had  when  he  won  the  Withers  and  Belmont,  but  col- 
lapsed when  it  came  to  a  finish.  Bersan  had  done  too 
much  in  the  West,  and  looked  light  and  over-marked. 
Wanda  laid  away,  and  coming  at  the  finish,  won.  Par- 
dee ran  a  great  race,  finishing  second 
"She's  Champion  ,,.        .         iji       1       •         ^-^ji- 

fth   Y     "  ^       limping  badly,  having  twisted  his 

plate.  Mr.  Lorillard  was  radiant.  To 
win  the  stakes  named  in  his  honor  had  been  his  ambi- 
tion for  several  years,  during  which  he  had  contributed 
$20,000  to  them. 

"I  felt  all  along,"  said  he,  "that  Wanda  at  her  best 
would  be  champion  of  the  year.  Seeing  so  many  horses 
at  exercise  at  Sheepshead  Bay  made  her  nervous  and 
upset  her." 

"You  had  confidence  in  her  to-day?" 


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*'I  backed  her  at  5  to  2.  Her  trial  was  better  than 
any  but  Pardee's." 

"Then  you  class  her  best  of  the  year?" 

"Yes,  but  I  have  another  that  I  believe  can  give  her 
weight  and  beat  her." 

"It 's  Wanda's  reserve  of  speed  that  wins  her  races," 
remarked  Mr.  John  F.  Purdy. 

"Well,"  returned  Mr.  Lorillard,  "I  have  always 
thought  Wanda  could  outrun  any  horse  living  for  a 
quarter  of  a  mile.  She  's  like  Parole  in  that.  She 
can't  gallop  in  heavy  ground— she  strides  too  long. 
Cholula  can  race  in  mud,  but  not  Wanda." 

Wanda  had  no  trouble  winning  the  Monmouth  Oaks, 
but  before  the  West  End,  fearing  she  had  been  in- 
dulged, Byrnes  gave  her  a  hard  gallop  in  2.40.  After 
that  she  scoured.  Olney,  her  jockey,  having  been  sus- 
pended, Feakes  was  given  the  mount,  and  laid  back  so 
far  that  he  could  not  overtake  East  Lynne,  and  a  dead 
heat  was  the  result.  Mr.  Lorillard  wished  to  divide, 
as  he  expected  to  start  Wanda  for  the  Omnibus  Stakes, 
but  Mr.  Bernard  declined  and  in  the  "run  off"  Wanda 
only  beat  East  Lynne  by  a  head. 

Wanda  never  won  again.    A  ringbone  had  begun  to 

develop;  it  was  noticeable  the  day  of  the  race  with 

East  Lynne,  and  it  drove  her  out  of  train- 

f^^   ^T      ^"S"     Wanda  was  a  bright  chestnut  with  a 

crooked  blaze  in  her  face  and  near  hind  leg 

white  to  the  hock.    She  was  a  tall  mare,  and  lengthy  as 


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well.  She  had  a  rather  "tucked  up"  appearance  In  the 
flanks,  and  stood  high  on  the  leg;  some  would  have 
called  her  ungainly,  but  this  was  due  to  her  neck  "dip- 
ping" a  trifle  as  It  came  out  of  her  shoulders— a  feature 
that  never  adds  to  beauty  In  a  horse.  Seen  In  action, 
she  was  another  being— It  was  smooth,  wire-hung  and 
frictlonless.  She  seemed  scarcely  to  touch  the  ground 
—  as  Matt  Byrnes  put  It,  "She  acts  as  If  the  ground 
was  n't  good  enough  forher"  — and  her  stride,  very  long 
and  elastic,  was  never  known  to  shorten  under  stress  of 
pace.  She  was  the  first  horse  Mr.  Lorlllard  tried  with 
aluminum  plates  made  by  Tiffany  &  Co.  They  suited 
her  light  action,  but  when  tried  on  Drake  Carter  they 
were  an  utter  failure.  In  the  stud,  Wanda  transmitted 
her  excellence;  for,  when  bred  to  Hanover,  she  pro- 
duced Urania,  a  fine  mare  which,  bred  to  Meddler,  pro- 
duced Armenia,  winner  of  the  Matrons  Stakes.  Ar- 
menia, taken  to  France  and  bred  to  Rabelais,  produced 
Mr.  Duryea's  Durbar,  winner  of  the  Epsom  Derby  of 
1914. 

When  Mr.  Lorlllard  stated  that  he  had  "another" 
that  "could  give  Wanda  weight  and  a  beating,"  we  had 
reason  to  suspect  he  referred  to  Katrine,  a  chestnut 
daughter  of  Mortemer  and  Loulanler  by  Lever;  and 
so  It  proved.  While  Wanda  was  winning  he 
repeatedly  referred  to  "a  better  one";  and 
when  Wanda  won  the  Stallion  Stakes  the  previous  year, 
Mr.  Withers  remarked  to  us,  "How  Is  It  he  does  n't 


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start  the  'better  one'  he  's  always  talking  about?"  But 
Katrine  did  not  see  the  post  until  three  years  old,  when 
she  started  for  the  Emporium,  2  to  i  favorite  over  a 
large  field.  She  ran  unplaced,  and  It  was  claimed  she 
had  been  shut  In  on  the  rail.  She  was  again  beaten 
for  the  Stockton  Stakes,  which  Tyrant  won,  and  there 
were  claims  of  foul  riding.  Mr.  Cassatt  claimed 
Brookwood  had  been  fouled  and  made  Feakes  lodge  a 
complaint:  but  It  was  too  late;  the  judges  had  left  the 
stand. 

"Some  action  should  have  been  taken;  my  colt  was 
fouled,"  said  Mr.  Cassatt. 

"If  Brookwood  had  won  there  would  have  been  a 
complaint,"  replied  Mr.  Galway. 

"How  so?"  queried  Mr.  Cassatt. 

"He  and  Goano  fouled  Katrine." 

"Yes,  they  squeezed  my  filly  on  to  the  rails,"  ex- 
claimed Mr.  Lorlllard.  "My  trainer  says  she  was  not 
as  good  by  10  lbs.  as  she  was  at  Coney  Island.  But 
that  Is  n't  the  point.  She  showed  enough  speed  If  the 
other  jockeys  had  n't  Interfered  with  her." 

For  the  Barnegat  Stakes  Katrine  was  again  a  favor- 
ite. "I  am  going  to  try  a  different  plan,"  said  Mr. 
Lorlllard.  "I  have  told  Olney  to  go  to  the  front  when 
the  flag  falls,  and  stay  there— If  he  can." 

"That  is  a  severe  task." 

"It  is,"  he  answered,  "but  In  her  last  race  they 
crowded  her.    By  keeping  in  front  they  cannot  do  that." 


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Olney  rode  to  orders,  but  Katrine  only  finished  third. 
For  the  Stevens  Stakes  she  was  still  at  2  to  i,  but  fin- 
ished third.  For  the  Raritan  Stakes  she  was  favorite, 
but  was  beaten  by  Exile.  Finally,  in  the  Newark  Stakes 
she  "broke  the  ice"  and  won,  but  her  hard  races  in  hot 
weather  had  caused  her  to  lose  flesh.  She  recovered 
with  a  short  rest,  but  in  the  race  for  the  September 
Stakes  she  was  cut  down  on  her  off  hind  leg.  Olney 
lodged  a  complaint  against  McLaughlin,  who  rode 
Richmond,  but  it  was  not  allowed.  Katrine  must  have 
been  born  under  an  unlucky  star,  for  cer- 
tainly Mr.  Lorillard  would  not  have 
backed  her  as  he  did  unless  she  had  shown  him 
enough  to  justify  it.  He  maintained  to  the  last  that 
she  had  beaten  Wanda.  Byrnes,  who  trained  both 
fillies,  confirmed  it.  Said  he:  "To  give  you  an  idea 
how  good  she  was,  before  Pontiac  won  the  Suburban 
we  tried  her  with  him  at  5  lbs.  for  the  year,  and  she 
beat  him.  We  thought  there  was  a  mistake,  and  tried 
them  again,  this  time  at  even  weights,  and  she  beat  him 
again." 

It  is  a  curious  fact  that  no  less  than  five  first  foals 
of  their  dams  have  won  the  Suburban— Gen.  Monroe, 
Ben  Brush,  Africander,  Hermis  and  Pontiac.  Indeed, 
Pontiac's  dam  was  only  five  years  old  at  the  time  of 
foaling.  Pontiac  was  a  black  colt  imported  in  utero, 
but  bred  by  Mr.  Lorillard  at  Rancocas  in  1881,  a  son 
of  Pero  Gomez  and  Agenoria,  a  sister  to  Pizarro,  by 

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"CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

Adventurer.  As  a  yearling,  his  trial  of  ^  mile  in  36 
was  so  good  that  he  was  shipped  to  Eng- 
y  ,.  J. .  ,  land,  but  performed  so  indifferently  that, 
as  a  three-year-old  in  1884,  he  was 
brought  home  with  several  others.  Byrnes  was  ordered 
to  "sell  the  lot,"  but  keep  one  of  them  "if  he  thought 
him  worth  it."  It  narrowed  down  to  Choctaw  and 
Pontiac  which  should  be  retained,  and  Byrnes'  fondness 
for  Pizarro  decided  him  in  favor  of  Pontiac  as  "the 
nephew  of  his  uncle." 

Pontiac  managed  to  get  into  the  Suburban  of  1885 
with  102  lbs.  and  defeated  a  field  of  fifteen  in  a  romp, 
Byrnes  having  to  shout  to  Olney  to  "take  it  easy."  It 
happened  that  it  was  one  of  those  days  when  the  au- 
thorities stopped  the  betting,  or  Mr.  Lorillard  would 
have  won  a  fortune,  as  Emperor  and  Heva  both  won 
races  and  Pontiac  had  been  kept  so  "dark"  that  it 
would  have  been  good  odds.  Emperor,  too,  had  failed 
in  England.  He  had  contracted  feet,  but  Byrnes  had 
fitted  him  with  Dan  Mace's  foot-expander  and  brought 
him  to  a  race. 

Winning  the  Suburban,  Pontiac  was  "an  exposed 
horse,"  and  could  not  get  into  another  race  with  any 
advantage  in  weight.  Yet  he  won  seven  races 
c  I    1  that  season,  among  them  the  Passaic,  Eaton- 

town  and  the  Manhattan  Handicap,  and  at 
a  mile  he  defeated  even  the  celebrated  Miss  Wood- 
ford.    While  he  won  the  Suburban  and  other  races 


"CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

over  a  longer  distance,  a  mile  was  Pontiac's  limit  when 
racing  with  horses  of  the  best  class.  He  was  a  beauti- 
ful horse,  a  fast  horse  and  a  sound  one,  a  trifle  ''cow- 
hocked,"  but  otherwise  perfect  in  conformation.  The 
Dwyers  showed  their  estimate  of  him  by  paying  $17,- 
500  when  he  was  sold  in  February  of  '86,  and  he  won 
many  races.  The  late  Mr.  J.  O.  Donner  purchased 
him,  and  he  raced  until  nine  years  old,  but  in  sprint 
races.  He  formed  a  part  of  the  beautiful  picture  Mr. 
Donner  had  made  in  which  the  Ramapo  paddock  is 
shown  with  Pontiac  wooing  the  famous  Girofle  over  a 
rustic  fence.  As  a  sire,  Pontiac's  opportunities  were 
limited,  as  the  Ramapo  stud  contained  but  few  mares; 
yet  while  there  he  sired  Ramapo,  who  followed  in  his 
sire's  footsteps  and  won  the  Suburban  as  well  as  the 
Metropolitan,  and  was  a  horse  of  high  class. 

Cyclops  and  Savanac  were  two  crack  colts  in  the 
Lorillard  stable  of  1885.  Both  were  sons  of  Mor- 
temer — Cyclops  from  Lizzie  Lucas,  and  therefore 
brother  to  Chimera ;  while  Savanac  was  from  Sly  Boots 
by  Rivoli.  Savanac  won  the  Sapling  Stakes  after  a 
dead  heat  with  Quito.     He  was  sluggish, 

ycopsan       ^^^  Olney  had  to  "bring  influence  to  bear" 
Savanac  ^  ^  ,  . 

in  the  shape  of  his  whip.    He  was  much  of 

the  Mortemer  type,  but  rather  short  in  the  neck  and 
had  a  heavy  forehand.  He  was  good  in  heavy  ground, 
and  it  is  usually  the  heavy-muscled  ones  that  are.  Cy- 
clops was  very  highly  tried.     Before  the  stable  left 


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home  he  beat  Wanda  at  half  a  mile;  but  at  Coney 
Island  he  took  catarrhal  fever,  and  was  taken  with 
Heimdal  to  Byrnes'  farm  at  Eatontown  and  lost  at  least 
lOO  lbs.  They  quite  despaired  of  starting  him,  but 
with  his  fine  constitution  he  rallied,  and  started  for 
the  Champion  Stallion  Stakes.  He  won  the  August, 
however.  Cyclops  was  a  grand  colt  in  appearance; 
but,  like  the  Mortemers,  he  had  great  size,  and  was 
hardly  one  of  the  kind  that  make  the  best  two-year-olds. 
Walter  H.  was  a  two-year-old  Mr.  Lorillard  pur- 
chased for  $10,000  after  he  had  beaten  Dewdrop  for 

the  Adieu  Stakes,  "if  only  to  get  him  out  of 

the  way,"  as  he  expressed  it.  He  was  a  bay 
by  Voltigeur  from  a  Billet  mare  with  a  plain  Vandal 
head,  lean  neck  and  good  shoulders.  Docile  as  a  dog, 
he  would  follow  his  trainer  to  the  paddock  without 
bridle  or  head-stall.  He  began  life  in  a  humble  way 
at  Brighton,  where  he  beat  all  comers;  but  he  had  no 
engagements  and  did  nothing  for  the  stable  after  his 
purchase. 

Late  in  the  season  Mr.  Lorillard,  disappointed  with 
his  riding  talent,  advertised  in  the  English  Calendar 
for  a  jockey,  and  Rawlinson,  a  jockey  of  some  repute, 
came  over.     He  donned  the  "cherry"  jacket  at  Coney 

Island;  but  he  was  found  too  slow  at  the 
,    T   ,  post.     Asked  how  he  regarded  American 

jockeys,  he  replied  that  he  thought  he  could 
give  the  best  of  them  lo  lbs.     "And  how  much  could 


^'CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

Fred  Archer  give  you?"  he  was  asked.  "About  lo 
lbs.,"  replied  Rawllnson.  This  would  make  Archer  20 
lbs.  better  than  Hayward  or  McLaughlin.  It  was 
what  Henry  Arthur  Jones  would  call  "an  obvious  error 
of  classification,"  and  Rawllnson  was  soon  after  al- 
lowed to  return  home. 

It  was  about  this  time,  probably,  that  Mr.  Lorlllard, 
speaking  out  of  the  bitterness  of  his  disappointment, 
said:  "It  is  easier  to  secure  a  good  horse  than  it  Is  to 
secure  a  good  jockey.  You  tell  them  to  wait,  and  they 
make  the  pace;  you  tell  them  to  make  the  pace,  and 
they  are  last  to  get  away."  "What  can  you  expect?" 
answered  Mr.  Ward,  who  generally  had  a  ready  reply. 
"Many  of  them  are  no  better  than  beggars  to  begin 
with,  and  If  you  put  a  beggar  on  horseback,  you  know 
he  is  likely  to  ride  according  to  the  old  proverb." 

A  curious  effect  of  the  Rules  of  Racing  disqualified 

all  Mr.  Lorillard's  two-year-olds  for  the  Homebred 

Produce  Stakes  at  Monmouth.     The  conditions  of  the 

race  required  that  the  produce  of  the  mares  nominated 

should  remain  wholly  the  property  of  the  subscriber 

until  after  the  race  or  pay  forfeit.  The 

p    .     J  race  had  closed  in   1882,   Mr.  Lorll- 

Kactng  Law  ^  ' 

lard  having  nominated  23  mares.  But 
In  1884  he  had  made  his  son  partner  in  his  racing 
stable,  which  act  disqualified  the  produce  of  all  the 
mares  named. 

At  the  Coney  Island  autumn  meeting  old  Parole  re- 


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appeared  after  an  absence  of  two  years.     Certainly  no 

American  race-horse  was  ever  so  popular  as  the  brown 

gelding.     Many  who  had  cheered  him  eight  or  nine 

years    before,    when    he    defeated    Ten 

y,  Broeck,    gathered   on   the  lawn  to   greet 

Appearance  . 

him.  "Here  he  comes!"  they  shouted,  as 
the  old  hero  was  seen  coming  down  the  stretch,  and  the 
cheers  rolled  from  the  field  stand,  and,  taken  up  by  the 
lawn,  amounted  to  an  ovation.  But  while  he  ran  sev- 
eral good  races,  the  light  of  other  days  had  failed,  and 
Mr.  Lorillard  gave  him  to  Dr.  Green.  "Last  summer 
at  the  farm,"  said  Mr.  Pierre  Lorillard,  Jr.,  in  explana- 
tion, "the  old  horse  seemed  unhappy.  He  had  a  large 
paddock,  plenty  of  range,  but  the  flies  bothered  him,  so 
father  concluded  he  would  be  better  with  the  horses  in 
training.  He  improved  at  once,  but  he  's  lost  his  speed. 
Father  would  have  given  him  to  me,  but  he  thought  I 
would  race  him,  and  he  did  n't  care  to  see  him  beaten." 
Parole's  career  was  a  noteworthy  one.  He  raced 
for  ten  seasons,  starting  In  137  races,  of  which  he  won 
59,  his  winnings  amounting  to  $82,909.25.     On  the 

Fourth  of  July,  1891,  he  made  his  "posi- 

Parole's  Record      ^-      1     1      ^  ni     r         ^u  ui- 

tively  last  appearance    before  the  public. 

It  was  at  Morris  Park,  Dr.  Green  having  asked  per- 
mission to  show  the  old  hero  as  an  attraction  to  many 
who  had  never  seen  him.  Ed.  Feakes,  his  old  jockey, 
consented  to  don  the  cherry  jacket  In  a  parade  between 
the  races.     Parole  was  eighteen  years  old,  but  showed 

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no  appreciable  signs  of  age  as  he  galloped  a  quarter 
of  a  mile  past  the  stand  amid  the  cheers  of  his  admirers 
and  then  passed  forever  Into  merited  retirement.  For 
years  he  was  used  as  a  hack  at  Rancocas,  but  he  had 
become  so  fond  of  the  companionship  of  people  that 
he  would  come  to  the  door  of  any  of  the  houses  on  the 
farm  and  whinny  until  some  one  came  out  and  noticed 
him.  He  had  been  granted  "the  freedom  of  the  city," 
like  the  conquerors  of  olden  times,  and  had  free  range 
to  go  where  he  pleased,  but  would  follow  people  like 
a  dog. 

During  1885  the  Lorlllard  stable  won  43  races  and 
$98,490  In  stakes,  of  which  Wanda  won  $29,640 ;  Dew- 
drop  $17,037;  Pontlac  $14,955;  ^"d  Unrest  $10,408. 


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CHAPTER  XIV 
THE  SALES 

I  will  not  change  my  horse  with  any  that  treads  but  on  four 
pasterns.  When  I  bestride  him,  I  soar,  I  am  a  hawk.  The  earth 
rings  when  he  touches  it;  the  basest  horn  of  his  hoof  is  more  musi- 
cal than  the  pipe  of  Hermes.  Henry  V. 

IT  was  on  the  30th  of  January,  1886,  that  the  racing 
world  was  startled  by  the  announcement  that  Mr. 
Lorlllard's  entire  stable  of  horses  In  training  would  be 
sold  by  auction  at  the  Rancocas  farm,  Saturday,  Febru- 
ary 27.     The  month  had  been  mild  enough  until  the 
day  prior  to  the  sale,  when  a  "cold  wave" 
^^^  descended,  followed  by  a  gale  of  wind 

reaching  a  velocity  of  sixty  miles  an  hour,  and  thus 
rendered  the  expedition  unpleasant.  But  the  atten- 
dance was  very  large  — owners,  trainers,  jockeys,  book- 
makers, officials,  race-goers,  and  journalists  appeared 
—  and  It  quite  reminded  one  of  a  great  race-day. 

The  sale  was  held  In  the  mammoth  glass-covered 
building  used  as  a  playhouse  for  the  weanlings  In  cold 
weather,  and  a  better  place  could  not  have  been  se- 
lected, as  the  sunlight  through  the  glass  tempered  the 

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cold  atmosphere  and  rendered  It  quite  comfortable.  At 
two  o'clock,  Col.  Bruce,  the  auctioneer,  mounted  the 
rostrum  and  after  a  few  remarks  Drake  Carter  was 

led  In,  and,  starting  at  $1500,  was  sold 
«  , ,  to    Chas.    Boyle.      Emperor    followed,    a 

grandly  topped  horse,  but  the  marks  of 
the  Irons  made  bidders  cautious,  and  Mr.  Fearing  se- 
cured him  for  $700.  There  was  a  ripple  when  Pontlac 
was  led  In,  his  black  coat  gleaming  like  satin.  Mr. 
Rothschild  bid  $5000,  Mr.  Reed  $6000,  Mr.  Dwyer 
$7000,  and  the  crowd  began  cheering  as  he  reached 

$15,000.     "Give  me  $17,000?"  asked  the 

r    *  auctioneer.      Mr.    Reed  nodded.      "It   's 

for  p/,^00 

against  you,"  said  the  Colonel.  "$17,- 
500,"  said  Mr.  Dwyer,  and  the  Suburban  winner  went 
to  the  Brooklyn  stable.  Helmdal  went  cheap  at  $300; 
Unrest,  after  some  competition,  for  $4500,  and  Green- 
field for  $3650. 

There  was  a  crush  to  reach  the  front  as  Dewdrop's 
turn  came.  "Here  she  comes,  the  pick  of  the  land!" 
somebody  called  out,  as  the  white  face  of  the  Cham- 
pagne winner  was  seen  coming  through  the  crowd,  and 
there  was  a  round  of  applause  as  the  brown  filly 
marched  Into  the  ring  and  gazed  around  upon  her  ad- 
mirers. "This,  gentlemen.  Is  the  best  filly 
Dewdrop  Sells  ^  ^1  1  r  t 

ft  or  the  year— perhaps  or  any  year.    1  can- 

not say  too  much  of  her,"  began  Col. 
Bruce.    "How  much  am  I  offered?"    "Ten  thousand," 


"CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

said  Mr.  Reed.  "I  won't  take  it,"  answered  Bruce; 
"make  it  fifteen."  "Well,  fifteen,  then,"  replied  Reed. 
Then  Mr.  Dwyer  bid  a  thousand.  "We  will  give  them 
a  race  for  it,"  said  Mr.  Walcott,  for  whom  Mr.  Reed 
was  bidding.  Nineteen,  twenty,  twenty-two,  and  then 
twenty-four  thousand  was  reached,  and  the  crowd  be- 
gan to  cheer.  Mr.  Reed  stopped.  Then  Mr.  Scott 
began  bidding  against  Mr.  Dwyer.  The  noise  was  so 
great  that  the  filly  became  alarmed,  and  Col.  Bruce 
begged  the  crowd  to  keep  quiet.  Dewdrop  reached 
$27,000.  Mr.  Scott  bid  $500,  Mr.  Dwyer  raised  it 
$500.  "Twenty-eight  thousand  I  am  offered,"  said 
Bruce,  looking  at  Mr.  Scott.  "Are  you  done?"  "Five," 
responded  Scott,  but  again  Dwyer  raised  it.  Bruce 
turned  to  Scott,  but  the  latter  shook  his  head,  and  Dew- 
drop  followed  Pontiac  into  the  Dwyer  stable  for  $29,- 
000,  Mr.  Phil  Dwyer  standing  on  the  top  of  a  pail  in 
order  to  see  over  the  heads  of  the  crowd  while  he  made 
his  bids,  while  Mr.  Scott  stood  on  a  chair. 

The  giant  Cyclops  went  to  Mr.  Walcott  for  $10,500, 
and  Savanac  to  Mr.  McCoy  for  $3750.  Winfred,  the 
brother  to  Wanda,  went  to  the  Dwyers  for  $13,000, 
and  they  also  secured  Pontico  for  $8000.  Walter  H. 
sold  for  $10,000,  and  "well  sold"  was  the  general  ver- 
dict. Cambyses,  a  stalwart  grey  and  the  supposed  pick 
of  the  two-year-olds,  brought  $4000,  Mr. 
^  ^  Fearing  buying  him  for  Mr.  Pierre  Loril- 
lard,  Jr.     "I  was  never  so  surprised,"  said  young  Mr. 

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Lorlllard,  after  the  sale.  "He  was  my  pick,  and  I 
wanted  to  buy  him,  but  father  would  n't  hear  of  It. 
Mr.  Fearing  came  to  me  after  the  sale  and  said  father 
had  told  him  to  buy  the  colt  for  me.  They  tell  me  a 
grey  horse  has  never  won  the  English  Derby,  but  we  '11 
try  him  anyhow."  Shawnee,  a  most  racing-like  colt, 
went  to  Mr.  Walcott  for  $4200;  Kismet,  half-brother 
to  Katrine,  to  Mr.  Ryan;  while  the  Dwyers,  to  show 
their  faith  in  Dewdrop,  bought  her  half-sister  Daruna, 
and  Chas.  Hill  took  Esquimau.  Puzzle,  with  the  repu- 
tation of  having  done  three  furlongs  in  37  seconds  with 
no  lbs.,  was  snapped  up  by  Mr.  Walcott,  who  also 
took  Hypasia  and  Catiline. 

The  twenty-seven  head  brought  $149,050,  an  aver- 
age of  $5520.  All  hands  declared  it  "a  splendid  sale" ; 
but  there  was  a  tinge  of  sadness  when  they 
spoke,  for  they  realized  that  the  "cherry 
and  black"  jacket  had  been  folded  and  put  away,  for 
how  long  only  Mr.  Lorillard,  who  was  awaiting  the 
news  in  Florida,  could  say. 

The  sale  of  the  Rancocas  Stud,  which  followed  on 
October  15,  1886,  brought  an  enormous  attendance  of 
horsemen  and  breeders  from  all  parts  of  the  country 
as  well  as  from  abroad,  among  them  Vicomte  de  la 
Motte  Rouge  and  Henri  le  Contenis  Caumont,  In- 
spectors of  the  Government  Studs  of  France.  The 
sale  included  the  five  stallions,  Mortemer,  Iroquois, 
Duke  of  Magenta,  Pizarro  and  Moccasin,  as  well  as 

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sev^enty-eight  brood-mares.  Of  course  Iroquois  was 
expected  to  bring  the  top  price,  which  he  did.  It  was 
known  that  the  English  were  after  him  and  that  Mr. 
Withers  had  the  commission  from  England  to  buy  him. 

However,   Gen.   W.   H.  Jackson  of 
Iroquois  Goes  to  the        ,        r,   ^^      at       i      o       i    •      -r- 
Bel  Meade  Stud         ^^^  ^^^^^^  ^^^^^  ^^"^  ^"  Tennessee 

wanted  him  too,  and  "drew"  bidders 
by  creating  an  impression  that  Mortemer  was  the  ob- 
ject of  his  visit.  When  it  came  to  bidding  he  outlasted 
them  all  and  secured  Iroquois  for  $20,000.  Mr. 
Withers  bought  Mortemer  for  his  own  Brookdale 
Stud  and  Duke  of  Magenta  went  to  Mr.  Forbes  of 
Boston.  Milton  Young  really  secured  the  bargain  of 
the  sale  in  Pizarro.  Mr.  Haggin  purchased  the  pick 
of  the  brood-mares.  The  five  stallions  brought  $31,- 
950,  an  average  of  $6390;  the  seventy-eight  brood- 
mares $110,945,  an  average  of  $1422.37;  the  grand 
total  being  $142,895,  an  average  of  $1721.62. 


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CHAPTER  XV 

THE  RETURN  TO  RACING 

1889-1895 

They  all  finish  gamely;  as  whipping  and  spurring, 

The  jockeys  ride  home  at  a  desperate  pace; 
The  crowd  with  the  wildest  excitement  is  stirring, 

So  keen  is  the  struggle,  so  close  is  the  race. 
And  opinions  divided  how  't  will  be  decided; 

Till  Lamplighter,  bringing  his  speed  into  play, 
The  maxim  endorses  of  "horses  for  courses," 

And  bears  off  the  honors  and  spoils  of  the  day. 

1889 

HE  will  not  keep  out  of  racing  long— he  's  too  fond 
of  it,"  many  said  when  Mr.  Lorillard  withdrew 
in  1886.  But  two  seasons  passed,  and  he  was  still  de- 
voting his  time  to  the  building  of  Tuxedo,  the  charming 
resort  that  has  since  become  so  popular  with  New  York 
people.  It  was  no  easy  task  to  take  a  large  tract  of 
land  and  render  it  as  attractive  as  he  did.     It  was  not 

until  1889  that  he  began  to  manifest  a 
Mr.  Lorillard  i  .  .  .       ,  ,       . 

Resumes  Racing       i*enewed  mterest  m  racmg  by  purchasmg 

several  yearlings  at  the  sales,  and  took 

over  several  horses  bred  by  his  friend  Mr.  Fearing. 

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He  also  had  the  three-year-old  filly  Rizpah,  by  Mor- 
temer-Parthenia,  and  she  it  was  that  announced  the 
return  of  the  "cherry  jacket"  to  racing  in  1889,  win- 
ning two  races  at  Monmouth  Park. 

1890 

In  1890  Mr.  Lorillard  took  the  field  with  a  stable 
composed  of  the  four-year-old  Pagan  and  the  two- 
year-olds  Kildeer,  Catlan,  Chartreuse,  Lima,  Uncer- 
tainty and  Variety.  Nearly  all  these  won  races  of 
minor  importance.  Kildeer,  a  filly  by 
Darebin  from  Loulanier,  won  the  Camden 
Stakes,  and  was  a  filly  of  some  class.  Lima  was  a  cap- 
ital filly,  a  daughter  of  Pizarro  and  Gladiola.  She  beat 
a  large  field  at  Morris  Park,  but  at  Monmouth  was  so 
badly  kicked  at  the  post  for  the  Independence  Stakes 
that  she  was  turned  out  for  the  remainder  of  the 
season. 

1891 

In  1 89 1  the  stable  began  to  assume  greater  propor- 
tions, with  John  Huggins  as  trainer  and  George  Taylor 
as  jockey.  It  contained  Kildeer,  Lima,  and  Sirocco, 
three-year-olds,  and  the  two-year-olds  Lorimer,  Crys- 
tal, Ginka,  Kilkenny,  Kirsch,  Stalac- 
'   th  Le  d  ^^^^'  ^^stibule,  Yemen,  and  Delusion. 

Later  the  colt  Johnnie  Hecksher  was 
added.     Vestibule  won  the  Galliard  Stakes  at  Mor- 


"CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

ris  Park;  Klldeer  won  the  Elizabeth  and  Hunter 
Stakes;  and  the  stable  captured  quite  a  number  of  minor 
races.  During  the  season  Curt  Gunn,  a  two-year-old 
owned  by  Mr.  Laudeman,  had  played  a  conspicuous 
part  in  the  West,  and  later  in  the  East,  winning 
seven  races.  He  was  a  light  chestnut  by  Onondaga 
from  Sophronia,  rather  light  in  bone  below  the 
knee,  and  rather  pigeon-toed,  but  his  form 
Locohatchee     ^^^    ^^^^    ^^^^^    ^^^    y^^     LoriUard    pur- 

chased  him  for  $15,000  and  changed  his  name  to  Loco- 
hatchee. The  same  autumn  he  purchased  of  Hough 
Brothers  the  celebrated  filly  La  Tosca,  three  years  old, 
one  of  the  best  fillies  of  the  day.  Certainly  she  was 
the  best  filly  St.  Blaise  ever  sired,  and  her  dam 
Toucques  was  a  daughter  of  La  Toucques,  which  ran 
second  for  the  original  Grand  Prix  de  Paris 

T       T' 

in  1863.  La  Tosca  had,  as  a  two-year-old, 
won  many  stakes  for  Mr.  Belmont,  and  was  sold  after 
his  death  for  $13,000  to  Hough  Brothers,  in  whose  col- 
ors she  had  a  brilliant  season  as  a  three-year-old.  She 
won  for  Mr.  LoriUard,  but  did  not  appear  at  four,  and 
although  Huggins  brought  her  out  at  five  and  won 
races,  she  started  favorite  for  the  Metropolitan  and 
pulled  up  lame.  A  more  beautiful  bloodlike  filly  never 
bore  a  silken  jacket.  There  was  a  refinement  to  her 
that  made  other  horses  look  common,  and  she  went 
into  the  stud  of  the  Sanfords  of  Amsterdam,  N.  Y.,  and 
became  the  dam  of  Chuctanunda. 


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1892 
In  1892  the  stable  employed  the  colored  jockey  Ham- 
ilton. Kildeer  was  still  in  training,  the  others  being 
Locohatchee,  Julien,  Kilkenny,  Joy,  Vestibule,  Yemen, 
Derfargilla,  Johnnie  Hecksher,  and  Lorimer,  and  the 
filly  Addie  by  Iroquois  was  purchased  on  her  Western 
reputation,  but  never  won  a  race  for  the  stable.  Loco- 
hatchee ran  a  tremendous  second  to  Pessara  for  the 
Metropolitan,  and  second  to  St.  Florian  for  the  Bowl- 
ingbrook.    He  was  unplaced  for  the  Suburban,  but  won 

the  Hackensack,  Raritan,  Palisade,  and 

JVinninp  Stakes        r-       1     1  1    c ^  1  tt 

^  rreehold  Stakes.     He  was  not   a   ro- 

bust horse,  and  "trained  off."  Kildeer  won  the  Rah- 
way  Handicap,  beating  a  "crack"  field  in  Pessara, 
Raceland,  Russell,  and  Pickpocket,  a  mile  in  1.37/4- 
Julien  won  several  races,  Vestibule  won  the  Swift 
Stakes,  and  Yemen,  a  younger  brother  of  Himyar,  also 
won  races,  as  did  Derfargilla,  among  them  the  Eliza- 
beth Stakes,  beating  Yorkville  Belle. 

By  this  time  Mr.  Lorillard  had  begun  to  feel  an 
awakening  of  the  old  fire  that  had  slumbered  during 
the  seasons  since  his  return  to  racing.  "I  am  tired  of 
selling-platers,"  he  said,  "I  'd  like  to  have  a  'top- 
sawyer'  once  more— if  I  can  find  one."  He  had  his 
eye  on  Lamplighter,  the  brown  son  of 
W^i  ^  Spendthrift  and  Torchlight,  in  Captain 
Brown's  stable,  and  on  August  9  Lamplighter  won  the 
Champion    Stakes    at    Monmouth,    beating    Banquet, 


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Locohatchee,  Poet  Scout,  Raceland,  and  Montana,  i  ^ 
miles  in  2.32%,  and  immediately  Mr.  Lorillard  pur- 
chased him.  It  brought  quick  results,  as  Lamplighter 
won  the  Choice  Stakes,  Twin  City  Handicap,  Bridge 
Handicap,  First  Special,  Second  Special,  and  other 
events.  He  retired  to  winter  quarters  quite  the  "crack" 
of  the  year.  Mr.  Lorillard  had  tried  to  buy  the  Eng- 
lish Derby  winner  Common,  but  without  effect. 

1893 

Lamplighter  was  allotted  1 27  lbs.  for  the  Suburban  of 
1893,  and  125  lbs.  for  the  Brooklyn  Handicap,  and  in- 
deed he  was  "top-weight"  throughout  the  season.  The 
winter  favorite  for  both  the  great  spring  handicaps,  he 
went  to  the  post  for  the  Brooklyn  carrying  the  public 

money,  but  was  "pocketed"  throughout  the 
H  ^  d'   t)  ^^^^  ^^^  could  never  get  through  until  too 

late.  He  finished  a  good  second  to  Diabolo. 
Mr.Lorillard's  friendsurgedhimtolodgeaclaim  against 
some  of  the  jockeys  for  interfering  with  his  horse,  but  he 
refused,  saying,  "I  cannot  prove  anything,  although  it 
looked  as  if  my  horse  was  cut  off  every  time  he  tried 
to  come  through.  The  stewards  say  they  saw  nothing 
sufficient  to  disturb  the  placing.  I  do  not  suppose  they 
can  see  everything  and  I  often  think  the  only  solution 
of  the  matter  would  be  to  have  an  electric  car  for  the 
stewards  to  follow  the  horses— to  have  it  just  inside 
the  rails  and  keep  as  close  to  the  horses  as  possible." 

CHS  3 


"CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

For  the  Suburban  Lamplighter  had  incurred  a  pen- 
alty of  2  lbs.  for  having  won  a  stake,  making  his  weight 
129  lbs.  But  he  went  to  the  post  an  even-money  favor- 
ite. Lowlander,  a  five-year-old  with  only  105  lbs., 
starting  at  12  to  i,  took  the  lead  and  made  a  strong 
pace  throughout,  winning  by  a  short  length  from  Ter- 
rifier,  5  years  with  95  lbs.,  who  beat  Lamplighter  four 
lengths  for  the  place.    The  stable  and 

rnpig  ers    ace       ^^^  public  fell  heavily  over  the  defeat 
for  the  suburban  ^  ,  •' 

of  Lamplighter.     And  yet  the  stable 

had  a  "line"  that  should  have  made  it  respect  the 
chances  of  Lowlander.  In  the  Brooklyn  Handicap 
Diabolo  had  beaten  Lamplighter  with  a  concession  of 
13  lbs.  A  week  later  Lowlander  had  beaten  Diabolo 
with  a  concession  of  5  lbs.  Again,  only  three  days  be- 
fore the  Suburban,  Mr.  Lorillard's  four-year-old  Kil- 
kenny had  beaten  Lowlander,  the  latter  conceding  Kil- 
kenny 1 1  lbs.,  and  Kilkenny  had  given  him 
P  about  a  5  lbs.  beating.    As  Lamplighter  had 

129  lbs.  in  the  Suburban,  and  Lowlander 
105  lbs.,  this  would  mean  putting  in  Kilkenny  at 
99  lbs.,  and  the  stable  knew  Lamplighter  could  not 
concede  Kilkenny  30  lbs.  Indeed,  John  Huggins  said, 
"Rogers  has  set  people  crazy  about  Lamplighter.  He 
thinks  him  a  great  deal  better  horse  than  I  do."  Thus 
If  Lamplighter  could  not  concede  30  lbs.  to  his  stable 
companion  Kilkenny,  he  could  hardly  concede  24  lbs.  to 
Lowlander.     However,  Lamplighter  was  sent  to  Chl- 

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cago  for  the  Columbus  Handicap,  but  fretted  to  noth- 
ing and  finished  ^'nowhere."  Returning  East  he  won 
the  Fall  Stakes,  Labor  Day  Stakes,  Standard  Stakes, 
Maturity  Stakes,  and  other  events.  Then  Mr.  Loril- 
lard  sold  him  to  Mr.  Walbaum  and  he  was  defeated  in 
the  special  race  with  Tammany. 

At  his  best,  Lamplighter  was  a  fine  race-horse,  but 
unfortunate  and  eccentric.  No  son  could  have  been  more 
unlike  his  sire  than  he;  for,  while  Spendthrift  had  the 
composure  of  Vere  de  Vere,  Lamplighter  was  nervous 
and  irritable  to  such  a  degree  that  often  his  naturally 
fine  turn  of  speed  was  quite  neutralized.  He  was  not 
cowardly,  but  over-anxious,  and  he  had  queer  notions 

about  being  placed  on  the  inside  or  out- 
mp  ig  ers       ^j^^  position  at  the  post;  while  if  a  horse 

"bumped"  him  during  a  race,  or  shut  him 
off,  he  seemed  to  lose  all  sense  of  the  situation.  He 
certainly  should  have  won  the  Brooklyn  Handicap,  but 
every  horse  in  the  race  seemed  to  cross  or  foul  him. 
Mr.  Gebhard  begged  Mr.  Lorillard  to  lodge  a  claim, 
but  the  latter  refused. 

1894-95 

It  was  with  a  moderate  stable  that  Mr.  Lorillard  took 
the  field  in  1894,  Liza,  Anisette,  April  Fool,  Dolabra, 
De  Courcey,  Redowoc,  and  Flush  being  the  most  prom- 
inent. Anisette,  a  good  filly  by  Topgallant-Wau- 
culla,  won  the  Salvator  and  Briar  Root  Stakes  at  Sara- 


"CHERRY  AND  BLACK'* 

toga.  Dolabra,  by  Emperor-Dolinka,  won  the  Sap- 
phire Stakes  and  Holly  Handicap.  Liza,  a  filly  by 
Rayon  d'Or,  won  the  Flash  Stakes,  beating  Cesarlon. 
The  season  of  1895  again  saw  a  small,  but  select  sta- 
ble represent  the   "cherry  and  black."       It 

Anisette        ^^^^^  ^        successful.     Anisette,  April  Fool, 
and  Ltz<t  •' 

Ardath,    Liza,    DIakka,    Dolabra,    Heresy, 

Bloomer,  and  King  of  Bohemia  were  all  winners,  Liza 

winning  the  Swift  Stakes,  and  the  historical  Travers  at 

Saratoga;  Anisette  won  the  Albany,  DIakka  the  Mc- 

Grathiana,  and  Heresy  the  Neptune. 


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CHAPTER  XVI 

THE  SECOND  CAMPAIGN  IN  ENGLAND 

1 896-1901 

Say  next,  O  muse,  of  all  Achaia  breeds 
Who  bravest  fought,  or  reined  the  noblest  steeds? 
Eumelus'  mares  were  foremost  in  the  chase, 
As  eagles  fleet  and  of  Pheretian  race, 
Bred  where  Pieria's  fruitful  fountains  flow, 
And  trained  by  him  who  bears  the  silver  bow. 
Fierce  in  the  fight  their  nostrils  breathe  a  flame, 
Their  height,  their  color,  and  their  age  the  same. 

The  Iliad. 

AFTER  the  New  York  Constitutional  Convention 
L  of  1894  passed  the  act  prohibiting  bookmaking 
and  several  of  the  meetings  were  abandoned  and  the 
gates  closed,  Mr.  Lorillard  determined  upon  another 
campaign  in  England.  His  determination  was  not  due 
to  that  feeling  too  frequent  among 
to  En  land  Americans  who  attain  wealth  and  then 

persuade  themselves  that  they  are  too 
good  for  their  own  country.  He  found  racing  In  Amer- 
ica too  precarious,  too  greatly  dependent  upon  the 
whims  or  greed  of  politicians,  and  that  a  man  with  a 
large  stable  and  valuable  engagements  In  stakes  which 


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were  declared  void  because  of  sudden  legislation,  was 
in  a  bad  plight,  as  it  rendered  his  stock  almost  value- 
less. He  wanted  greater  security,  and  that  English 
racing  assured.  Accordingly,  at  the  end  of  the  season 
of  1895,  he  shipped  to  England  his  entire  stable,  con- 
sisting of  Anisette,  Dolabra,  Diakka,  King  of  Bo- 
hemia, and  the  two-year-olds  Berzak,  Astolphe,  Quib- 
ble, Laverock,  Equinox,  Glaring,  Sandia  and  Dorado. 

1896 

During  the  season  of  1896  in  England,  Berzak  was 
the  most  successful,  as  he  won  the  Newmarket  Two- 
Years-Old  Stakes,  the  Rutland  Stakes,  and  the  Clear- 
well  Stakes,  in  the  latter  defeating  so  good  a  one  as 
Goletta.  He  was  also  second  for  the  Dewhurst  Plate. 
Diakka  won  three  races,  including  Peveril  of  the  Peak 
Handicap,  beating  seventeen,  including 
Marco  and  Prince  Barcaldine.  Dolabra 
won  the  Rufford  Abbey  Plate  and  Mile  Plate  at  Leices- 
ter, Glaring  won  a  maiden  plate  at  Birmingham,  and 
Sandia  won  four  races  of  less  importance. 

1897 

In  1897  Mr.  Lorillard  started  over  twenty  horses  in 
England.  Dolabra  won  the  Stanley  Plate  and  the 
Stand  Plate,  also  the  Seaforth  Handicap.  Diakka  won 
four  races,  among  them  the  Subscription  Stakes  and 
the  Duke  of  York  Stakes,  beating  a  "crack"  field  com- 

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posed  of  Marco,  Laveno,  Amphora,  and  Shaddock. 
Sandia,  by  Sailor  Prince-Saluda,  won  five  races,  among 
them  the  FernhlU  Stakes,  and  the  Biennial  at  Ascot, 
Lingfield  Handicap,  the  Scarborough 
Stakes  and  the  old  Cambridgeshire 
Handicap.  Belisama,  2  years,  by  Sensation,  won  two 
Bentlnck  Plates  at  Nottingham.  Elfin,  2  years,  by 
Sensation-Equality,  won  the  Fortieth  Biennial  at  As- 
cot. Beryl,  by  Sensation,  won  the  Worcester  Plate. 
Meta,  2  years,  by  Sensation,  won  the  Maiden  Plate  at 
Newmarket,  the  Warren  Nursery,  and  a  free  handicap 
at  Worcester. 

1898 

The  stable  started  a  large  number  of  horses  in  Eng- 
land In  1898.  They  were  raced  In  conjunction  with 
Lord  William  Beresford  and  won  forty  races,  the  prin- 
cipal winner  being  Caiman,  a  chestnut  colt,  2  years,  by 
Locohatchee-Happy  Day,  who  won  three  events, 
among  them  the  Clearwell  Stakes  and 

MMIeMpL  'h^  g--^^'  M'^^'i'^  P"k  Plate-the 
chief  event  In  England  for  two-year- 
olds.  He  won  by  a  length  and  a  half,  beating  the 
famous  Flying  Fox,  who  won  the  Derby  the  following 
year.  Caiman  then  ran  second  for  the  Dewhurst  Plate 
to  Frontier,  to  whom,  with  131  lbs.,  he  conceded  10  lbs. 
and  was  only  beaten  a  head.  This  made  Caiman  one 
of  the  best  of  the  year.     Myakka,  by  Sensation,  run- 


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ning  for  Mr.  Lorlllard,  won  four  races,  including  the 
Prendergast  Stakes.  Dominie,  by  Sensation,  won  four 
races,  including  the  Chevely  Stakes,  Granby  Plate,  and 
Exeter  Stakes.  Elfin  won  four  races.  Diakka  won  the 
Esher  Stakes,  and  Berzak,  Belisma,  Chinook,  and  San- 
dia  all  won  races.  In  short,  Mr.  Lorillard  won  eleven 
races  and  $40,164;  Lord  William  Beresford  won  nine- 
teen and  $33,896. 

1899 

In  1899  the  stable  had  assumed  greater  proportions. 
Business  having  called  Mr.  Lorillard  to  America  be- 
fore the  end  of  the  year.  Lord  William  Beresford 
managed  the  stable,  which  won  fifty-five  races.  Caiman 
won  six  out  of  eight  starts.  He  was  second  to  Flying 
Fox  for  the  Two  Thousand  Guineas,  beating  Desmond 
and  others.  He  won  the  Burwell,  the  Payne,  Lingfield 
Imperial,  Ascot  Biennial,  Zetland,  and  Sussex  Stakes, 
and  was  second  to  Flying  Fox  for  the  St.  Leger.  The 
two-year-old  Democrat,  by  Sensation  from  Equality, 
won  seven  out  of  eleven  races,  viz.,  the  Coventry 
Stakes,  Hurst  Park,  Foal  Plate,  Na- 

^.Tfrl^uV^'  tional  Breeders,  Produce  Stakes, 
Middle  Park  Plate 

Champagne  Stakes,  and  Rous  Me- 
morial. Then  he  won  the  Middle  Park  Plate,  beating 
Diamond  Jubilee,  the  winner  of  the  Derby  the  follow- 
ing year.  The  three-year-old  filly  Sibola  won  five  out 
of  eight   races,    including  the   classic   One   Thousand 

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Guineas,  the  Wood  DItton,  Champion  Breeders,  and 
Scarborough  Stakes.  She  also  ran  second  for  the  Oaks. 
Dominie  won  the  Newmarket  and  Midsummer  Stakes, 
Berzak,  Chinook,  Doric,  Jiffy,  Meta,  Tarollnta,  Jou- 
vence.  Pedometer,  Lutetia,  Etolle,  Perdicus,  Pomfret, 
and  Solano  all  won.  It  was  a  great  year  for  American 
horses— the  best  the  stable  had  In  England.  Demo- 
crat became  the  property  of  General  Lord  Kitchener, 
who  rode  him  at  the  Durbar  at  Delhi ;  and  when  the 
equestrian  statue  of  Lord  Kitchener  was  cast  in  bronze 
at  Calcutta,  Democrat  was  the  model  chosen  at  Lord 
Kitchener's  request. 

1900 

During  1900  Mr.  Lorillard  remained  in  America,  but 
he  maintained  a  small  stable  in  England,  the  horses 
being  trained  by  the  English  trainer  Blackwell.  They 
included  Hamllcar,  b.  c,  2  years,  by  Sensation,  from 
Hope  IV;  Exedo,  ch.  c,  2  years,  by  Sensation,  from 
Equality;  Laus,  b.  c,  2  years,  by  Sensation,  from  Liza; 
Scythia,  ch.  f.,  2  years,  by  Sailor  Prince,  from  Saluda, 
and  Tantalus,  ch.  c,  2  years,  by  Sailor  Prlnce-Tar- 
bouche.  Of  these  Exedo  won  the  Prendergast  Stakes 
and  Clearwell  Stakes  and  $7536;  Tantalus  won  one 
race,  and  the  total  was  three  races  and  $8300. 


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CHAPTER  XVII 

THE  RETURN  TO  AMERICA 

1899-1900 

The  colors  that  Barbae, 

Feakes,  Hayward  and  Shauer 
Have  worn  in  success  and  disaster; 

The  colors  Fred  Archer 
To  victory  bore 

At  Epsom,  Ascot  and  Doncaster. 
Then  fill  up  your  glass 

And  let  the  toast  pass 
In  champagne  or  claret  or  sherry, 

And  drink  to  the  toast: 
"Be  it  first  past  the  post" — 

The  Lorillard  jacket  of  "Cherry." 

MR.  LORILLARD  spent  the  season  of  1899  in 
America,  but  while  his  best  horses  had  been 
sent  to  England,  he  was  not  long  in  collecting  some 
horses  to  carry  the  "cherry"  jacket  at  home.    He  pur- 
chased of  Mr.  Madden  for  $25,000  the  bay  colt  David 
Garrick,    2    years,    by    Hanover,    from 

urc  aseof  p       Woffington,    also   the   two-year-old 

David  Garrick  ^  &        '  -^ 

Maribert    from    Mr.    Fleischman,    and 

these,    with    Albula,    Petrea,    Prima,    Salamis,    and 


"CHERRY  AND  BLACK" 

Ganymede  of  his  own  breeding,  took  the  field,  adding 
a  colt  called  The  Chamberlain.  They  won  several  races, 
but  the  only  conspicuous  ones  were  with  David  Gar- 
rick,  who  won  the  Reapers,  and  finally 
David  Garrick  ^^^  Annual  Champion  Stakes  of  1900, 
Wins  Annual  .  t.  ,     ,,  ,         , 

Champion  Stakes     beatmg   Ethelbert    and   others    at    2j4 

miles.  The  race  was  worth  $19,650, 
and  the  stable's  winnings  at  the  Coney  Island  autumn 
meeting  amounted  to  $24,480. 

David  Garrick  was  intended  for  a  high-class  horse, 
but  he  had  a  temper  of  his  own,  and  was  an  almost 
impossible  horse  at  the  post.  However,  he  had  shown 
enough  form  to  make  Mr.  Lorillard  think  seriously 
of  his  chance  for  the  Ascot  Gold  Cup.  He  had  won 
the  Derby,  the  St.  Leger,  the  Middle  Park  Plate,  and 
now  he  yearned  for  a  conquest  of  this  great  after-test 
of  Derby  and  St.  Leger  winners,  which 
jf^^^^  MA  ^^^y  Isinglass  and  Persimmon  had  ac- 

Sail  for  Endand  complished  within  twenty  years  previ- 
ous. He  had  tried  David  Garrick  and 
proved  him  a  stayer,  and  that  was  the  needed  quality. 
Accordingly,  David  Garrick  was  shipped  to  Blackwell 
in  England,  and  Danny  Maher,  his  jockey,  accom- 
panied him,  arriving  at  Newmarket  in  October,  1900. 

David  Garrick  wintered  well,  and  with  the  top- 
weight,  122  lbs.,  started  for  the  City  and  Suburban  at 
Epsom  April  27,  1901,  with  10  to  i  against  him  in  the 
betting.     Maher  rode  him,  but  he  was  unplaced,  the 

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winher,  Australian  Star,  a  five-year-old,  carrying  io8 
lbs.  On  May  8  David  Garrick  appeared  for  the  Ches- 
ter Cup,  2%  miles.  He  was  within  a 
iMytd  (jarrtc  pound  of  being  top-weight,  he  having  122 
Chester  Cup  ^^^'  ^^  Mazagan's  123  lbs.  But  David 
Garrick  was  not  to  be  denied  this  time. 
Staying  was  his  forte,  and  the  distance  favored  him,  he 
winning  easily  by  two  lengths,  conceding  13  lbs.  to  the 
second  horse.  He  started  for  the  Epsom  Gold  Cup, 
ij4  miles,  an  odds-on  favorite,  and  ran  second  to 
Merry  Gal;  and  thus  the  career  of  the  "cherry  and 
black,"  which  had  begun  at  Long  Branch  in  1873,  ended 
at  Epsom  in  June,  1901. 


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CHAPTER  XVIII 
CONCLUSION 

THUS  we  have  traced  the  story  of  the  "cherry  and 
black"  jacket  from  Saxon  to  David  Garrick, 
from  1873  to  1 90 1,  through  twenty-nine  years  of  rac- 
ing and  Its  vicissitudes;  beginning  with  the  days  when 
the  "blue  with  red  sash"  of  the  McDanlel  Confederacy 
rode  triumphant  with  Its  Harry  Bassett  and  Spring- 
bok; succeeded  by  the  period  when  the  "maroon  and 
red"  of  the  Nursery  rose  again  to  power  with  Sultana, 
Olltlpa  and  Fiddlestick;  only  to  be  followed  by  the 
"white  with  red  star"  of  Mr.  Astor,  with  Vagrant  and 
Baden  Baden.  Then  comes  the  "blue  and  orange"  of 
"Prince  George,"  with  Harold,  Splnaway,  and  Sensa- 
tion. Anon,  we  have  "the  Dwyer  dynasty"  with 
Bramble,  Blackburn,  Hindoo,  Miss  Woodford,  Tre- 
mont,  and  Hanover,  Interrupted  by  the  triumphs  of  the 
"tricolor"  of  Cassatt  and  the  "orange  and  blue"  of 
Haggin,  the  "all  scarlet"  of  Morris,  and  the  "all 
black"  of  Withers.  Now  we  have  the  era  of  Keene 
and  the  "white  with  blue  spots,"  and  Its  Domino,  Com- 
mando,  Sysonby   and   Colin.      But  through   all  these 


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years,  with  their  ebb  and  flow  of  fortune,  the  "cherry 
and  black"  of  Lorillard  retained  Its  prestige  and  main- 
tained the  "balance  of  power"  on  the  turf  to  a  degree 
that  in  the  field  of  world  politics  statesmen  have  strug- 
gled to  preserve;  and  whatever  the  asperities  of  the 
time  may  have  produced,  it  cannot  be  said  in  relation 
to  his  career  as  a  turfman  that  Pierre  Lorillard  lived 
in  vain. 

It  was  Mr.  Lorillard  who  invaded  the  turf  of  Eng- 
land with  greater  success  than  has  fallen  to  any  foreign 
turfman.  It  was  the  success  of  Iroquois  and  Parole 
that  gave  the  great  impulse  to  racing  in  America,  in 
that  it  attracted  the  attention  and  aroused  the  pride 
and  the  interest  of  the  people  in  the  sport,  and  led  to 
Its  wonderful  growth  and  popularity  throughout  the 
country. 

It  was  Mr.  Lorillard  who  Introduced  Into  our  stakes 
the  minor  forfeit  clause,  whereby,  after  a  horse  had 
been  tried,  it  could  be  "declared  out"  on  the  payment 
of  a  nominal  sum.  Previous  to  this  all  stakes  had  been 
either  "half  forfeit"  or  "play  or  pay." 

It  was  he  who  proposed  an  amendment  to  the  Rules 
of  Racing  (and  it  was  adopted)  by  which  horses 
starting  for  a  race  must  be  notified  to  the  Clerk  of  the 
Scales,  and  their  numbers  posted,  fifteen  minutes  before 
a  race.  Previous  to  this  there  was  no  rule  as  to  time, 
except  in  races  for  stakes. 

The  colts  he  raced  in  England  were  given  names  sug- 


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gestive  of  his  native  country.  Thus  he  had  Iroquois, 
Comanche,  Santee,  Seneca,  Pontlac,  Choctaw,  Mo- 
hawk, Sachem,  Massasolt,  etc.  — an  Instance  of  the  ex- 
quisite taste  and  selection  he  used  In  the  nomenclature 
of  his  horses,  and  which  elevated  the  tone  of  racing. 
Could  anything  have  been  more  appropriate  than  Iro- 
quois for  the  name  of  an  American-bred  winner  of  the 
Derby? 

He  was  one  of  the  leading  spirits  of  the  Coney 
Island  Jockey  Club,  and  was  Mr.  Lawrence's  adviser 
In  the  conception  and  construction  of  such  great  events 
as  the  Suburban,  the  Futurity,  and  the  Realization. 

He  was  always  ready  to  contribute  a  purse  or  endow 
a  race  for  stakes.  To  the  Lorlllard  Stakes,  which  he 
founded  and  endowed,  In  consideration  of  which  It  was 
given  his  name,  he  added,  during  seven  seasons  ( 1879- 
1885),  the  sum  of  $20,000. 

He  expended  more  money  In  race-horses,  yearlings, 
stallions,  and  brood-mares  than  any  man  of  his  genera- 
tion, and  thus  greatly  benefited  breeders  and  owners 
throughout  the  country. 

He  formulated  the  first  general  plan  of  racing  gov- 
ernment In  the  United  States  at  a  dinner  he  offered  to 
turfmen  for  that  purpose  in  October,  1890,  out  of 
which  was  created  the  Board  of  Control,  which  later 
was  merged  in  the  Jockey  Club. 

He  founded  the  first  of  the  great  Stallion  Stakes  in 
the  East,  by  which  the  entry  of  a  stallion  secured  Its 

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owner  a  share  of  the  stakes  and  qualified  the  entry  of 
its  progeny. 

He  conceived  and  executed  the  plan  of  building 
Tuxedo,  which  has  become  one  of  the  fashionable  cen- 
tres of  the  country. 

It  was  he  who  Introduced  aluminum  plates,  made  at 
his  order  by  Tiffany  &  Co.,  which  were  much  lighter 
than  any  ever  used  on  the  foot  of  a  race-horse. 

It  Is  difficult  to  Imagine  what  a  man  possessing  such 
energy  of  character  and  powers  of  construction  would 
not  have  accomplished  had  he  devoted  himself  to  any 
of  those  greater  fields  of  human  endeavor  which  open 
to  men  of  genius.  Had  Mr.  Lorlllard  elected  to  take 
part  In  the  affairs  of  state,  It  Is  probable  that  today  his 
name  would  be  mentioned  with  those  of  our  eminent 
publicists;  had  he  devoted  himself  to  the  profession  of 
arms.  It  would  not  now  be  said  that  the  Spanish-Ameri- 
can war  produced  no  great  general. 


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